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Elizabeth Warren Wants Big Corporations To Pay For More Abortion Expenses
January 15, 2023
Many corporations are paying for their employees to travel out of state to have abortions, but U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) says that is not good enough.
Warren and U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) recently penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor urging the entity to crack down on what they see as worker misclassification.
They want to see more independent contractors classified as employees at companies like Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, and Doordash so that their employers will give them abortion travel benefits.
“For previously misclassified workers in states that have restricted or banned abortion access since the Dobbs decision, the benefit would cushion the cost of traveling out of state to access the care they need,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter. “And for gig workers across the board, many of whom experience economic insecurity as a result of low pay and other barriers, the rights to a minimum wage, overtime pay, and employer-sponsored health care linked to employee status would help alleviate the burden of accessing abortions and other necessary medical care.”
Warren penned the letter despite representing Massachusetts, where abortion is legal.
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