Social Inequities Highlighted by the Prolonged Pandemic: Expanding Sick Leave

Rauhaus, Beth M.; Johnson, Andrew F.

doi:10.20899/jpna.7.1.154-163

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“…16 To protect such individuals, there is a need for permanent structural changes in labor protection laws at the federal level, which could leverage pre-existing state policies to identify best practices and potential pitfalls. 17 Furthermore, systematic changes to labor protection laws could also contribute in the long term to improving preparedness in emergency situations as well as overall social and health equity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Successful implementation of such laws requires an equity-based approach that considers addressing disparities in access to labor benefits, thoughtful outreach strategies through clear and consistent communication to all labor force members, and rigorous oversight and enforcement from state and federal labor departments and boards to both ensure compliance by employers and maximize the potential for success. 17…”

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The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Policies on Longitudinal Weekday Workplace Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pollack

Deverakonda

Hassan

et al. 2022

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Objectives. To evaluate whether the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) modified the association between pre-existing state paid sick leave (PSL) and weekday workplace mobility between February 15 and July 7, 2020. Methods. The 50 US states and Washington, D.C. were divided into exposure groups based on the presence or absence of pre-existing state PSL policies. Derived from Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, the outcome was measured as the daily percent change in weekday workplace mobility. Mixed-effects, interrupted time series regression was performed to evaluate weekday workplace mobility after the implementation of the FFCRA on April 1st, 2020. Results. States with pre-existing PSL policies exhibited a greater drop in mobility following the passage of the FFCRA (𝛃=-8.86,95%CI:-11.6,-6.10,P< 001). This remained significant after adjusting for state-level health, economic, and sociodemographic indicators (𝛃=-3.13,95%CI:-5.92,-0.34,P=.039). Conclusions. Pre-existing PSL policies contributed to a significant decline in weekday workplace mobility after the FFCRA, which may have influenced local health outcomes. Policy implications The presence of pre-existing state policies may differentially influence the impact of federal legislation enacted during emergencies.

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The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Policies on Longitudinal Weekday Workplace Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pollack

Deverakonda

Hassan

et al. 2022

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“…Although JPNA has always been dedicated to publishing articles that address any number of inequities in the public and nonprofit sectors, the Social Equity Section is a supplemental and dedicated outlet for this important work to disseminate topics commonly discounted in government and nonprofit affairs scholarship, as well as emerging social equity issues (Carroll, 2021). Since its inception, articles in the new Social Equity Section have included topics such as expanding sick leave during a global pandemic (Rauhaus & Johnson, 2021), reintegration programs and services for Black female parolees in Alabama (Moorer, 2021), increasing access to public administration research for individuals with disabilities (Allgood, 2021), appropriate terminology usage for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual plus (LGBTQIA+) communities (Meyer & Milleson, 2022), a historical analysis of American constitutional values and democratic beliefs toward social equity progression (Trochmann & Guy, 2022), a call for political action on gun control by the professional sports industry (Thomas & Levine Daniel, 2022), digital inequities in community revitalization (Marshall, 2023), and understanding the "B" in #Black Lives Matter (Houston & Krinch, 2023). They represent a broad array of emerging topics and much-needed discourse in social equity and public administration scholarship.…”

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Social Equity in Public Administration: Past, Present, and the Future

Yu,

McCandless,

Rauhaus

2023

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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By 2018, the United States was (again) faced with a number of turbulent and divisive issues. In response, the Minnowbrook at 50 conference identified several critical areas of emphasis to advance social equity in research, teaching, and the practice of public administration. In this essay, we highlight these renewed efforts to describe its progress during the past five years (e.g., 2018–2023), as well as review the conceptual development of social equity in public administration prior to the Minnowbrook at 50 conference (e.g., pre-2018). We conclude with a re-examination of the future of social equity in public administration by upholding past principles, while encouraging new practices, pedagogy, and scholarship within the social equity domain (e.g., post-2023).

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“…In addition, this spring 2021 issue of JPNA launches our new Social Equity section as part of our commitment to enhancing diversity and inclusion within academic publishing that addresses any number of inequities in the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as topics commonly discounted in government and nonprofit affairs scholarship. For our first article, Rauhaus and Johnson (2021) use the lens of punctuated equilibrium to discuss the inequities created by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic combined with the lack of paid sick leave in the United States, as compared to other nations that have enacted emergency paid sick leave in efforts to help flatten their curves of infections. By presenting a discussion of best practices globally, the research contributes to our understanding of policymaking in a federal system during times of crisis and how such policies, or lack thereof, can disproportionately disadvantage and further marginalize certain groups of individuals.…”

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Inaugural Editor’s Introduction: What Have We Learned From ‘The Lost Year’?

Carroll¹

2021

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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The discovery of COVID-19 in the Life Care Center assisted living facility in Kirkland, Washington in the early part of 2020 marked the beginning of the virus' outbreak in the United States. And, more than a year later, the Coronavirus global pandemic continues to affect our lives, our economy, and our institutions in monumental ways. So, as the vaccine rollout has given us some long awaited hope that we will see a return to normalcy at some point this year, it is important for us to reflect on some of the important lessons learned during this lost year of being housebound and living virtually. Institutions MatterThis past year has reminded us, perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, that institutions matter. From a highly contested presidential election, to vaccine development and distribution, to our impending economic recovery, public administrators played a crucial role in preserving and protecting the institutions that comprise the very fabric of our society and will continue to do so going forward, for the implications of strong leadership and good governance are essential for upholding our democratic ideals. In this regard, new JPNA editorial board member Tina Nabatchi and her coauthors have noted the threat to our democratic foundations and sense of "publicness" of public administration as a result of rising distrust, political polarization, and populism (Ventriss et al., 2019). And, the authors correctly suggest that those of us in the field of public administration need to use our voices to strengthen the ties between democracy, public administration, and public values through our teaching, research, and community-engaged scholarship (Ventriss, 2019).The COVID-19 global health pandemic showed us the importance of leadership and our governing institutions, including coordination among them, to effectively respond to a public health crisis or perhaps any future crisis we might face. Unfortunately, vertical and horizontal collaboration among governing jurisdictions in the United States in the early days of the pandemic were largely drawn along political party lines. New JPNA associate editor Davia Downey and her coauthor suggest this was a reflection of the limitations of American-style federalism; however, the creation and implementation of permanent intergovernmental forums would provide for better organizational capacity for collaboration that is needed for an effective, holistic response to crises such as a global pandemic (Downey & Myers, 2020). At the state level, returning JPNA editorial board member Naim Kapucu and his coauthors examined and highlighted the differences in crisis leadership response to COVID-19 of the governors in the four most populated U.S. states (Sadiq et al., 2020). The authors remind us that, when facing a high level of uncertainty, decisive guidance, effective crisis communication, and collaborations with relevant stakeholders to help build coalitions and mobilize resources

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Social Inequities Highlighted by the Prolonged Pandemic: Expanding Sick Leave

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Policies on Longitudinal Weekday Workplace Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Policies on Longitudinal Weekday Workplace Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Equity in Public Administration: Past, Present, and the Future

Inaugural Editor’s Introduction: What Have We Learned From ‘The Lost Year’?

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