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Work Scheduling and Health

Thursday, May 14, 2020

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT

Unpredictable work schedules have a major impact on all aspects of hourly workers' lives. Inconsistent scheduling can result in workers having too many or too few hours, which impacts their ability to find adequate child care and make ends meet. It can also affect the health and well-being of the entire family. 

The global pandemic is highlighting the many obstacles essential workers face, and demonstrating that work supports are crucial to both public health and economic security. Sound job creation and employment maintenance efforts will be critical to improving public health and restoring the economy in the coming months and years. In this webinar, experts discuss the importance of work scheduling in improving health outcomes.

The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and the University of California-Berkeley's Work-Family Supports and Health Research Hub presents Work Scheduling and Health.

This webinar is the second in a series of three webinars produced in partnership with the Policies for Action—a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, administered by the Urban Institute—on the impacts of work supports on health outcomes. The first webinar, The Minimum Wage and Health, explored the important role that increasing the minimum wage can have on health and well-being outcomes. View a recording of the first webinar here.

Moderator:

  • Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President Emerita and Senior Research Economist, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Panelists:

  • Dr. Kristin Harknett, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Dr. Lonnie Golden, Professor of Economics, Penn State University
  • Brigid Schulte, Director, The Better Life Lab at New America
  • Rachel Lyons, Deputy Legislative Director, United Food & Commercial Workers
 

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