staffing shortages

Nurses hold signs outside Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday, the first day of their strike.

NYC nurses are on strike, but the problems they face are seen nationwide

11:28am January 11, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Thousands of nurses at two New York hospitals are on strike for a third day. Their staffing shortages and other problems predate the pandemic, says the president of the American Nurses Association.

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Maurice Miller lies in bed in his room at a nursing home in Takoma Park, Md., on Thursday. The Biden administration is planning to establish a federal minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes as part of a broader push to improve care for seniors and

Health & Safety

Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill

9:51am April 06, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

To address the problem of poor care, President Biden is calling for a federal minimum staffing requirement in nursing homes. The nursing home industry says there aren't workers to fill the jobs.

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A grocery store worker sanitizes a shopping cart at a MOM's Organic Market in Washington, D.C., in April 2020.

Workers are calling out sick in droves, leaving employers scrambling

5:01pm January 18, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

Employers from Macy's to United Airlines are having to adjust after skyrocketing omicron COVID cases have led large numbers of workers to call out sick.

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A view of the entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on May 14, 2020. Hospital and nursing home workers across New York are required to have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, prompting concerns over noncompliance and potential

New York May Use The National Guard To Replace Unvaccinated Health Care Workers

5:48pm September 26, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

The state's vaccine mandate for hospital and nursing home workers takes effect on Monday, and officials are bracing for staffing shortages. Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a plan for filling them.

Jason Brissett, a kitchen worker who came to the U.S. last month from Jamaica through an H-2B visa, is bracing for 80-hour workweeks this summer to make up for staffing shortages.

Hotels And Restaurants That Survived Pandemic Face New Challenge: Staffing Shortages

7:44pm May 05, 2021

by Tovia Smith

Business owners who rely on seasonal foreign workers coming to the U.S. on H-2B visas are struggling to find help they need for what's expected to be a busy summer.

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