Interjurisdictional Variance in US Workers’ Benefits for Emergency Response Volunteers
| العنوان: | Interjurisdictional Variance in US Workers’ Benefits for Emergency Response Volunteers |
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| المؤلفون: | Elizabeth Van Nostrand, Nandini Pillai, Alix Ware |
| المصدر: | American Journal of Public Health. 108:S387-S393 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Public Health Association, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Volunteers, medicine.medical_specialty, Civil defense, Public health law, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Disaster Planning, 02 engineering and technology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Statutory law, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Seniority, Economic impact analysis, health care economics and organizations, 021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Public economics, Public health, AJPH Law & Ethics, Emergency Responders, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Variance (land use), Civil Defense, Overtime, United States, Business |
| الوصف: | Volunteers who are deployed during times of disaster are critical public health system assets. These individuals share concerns about a variety of subjects with public health law implications, including whether they are entitled to employment benefits before, during, and after disaster response. We examined and analyzed state employment benefit laws pertaining to emergency response volunteers. We used the Emergency Law Inventory (ELI; https://legalinventory.pitt.edu )—an informatics tool developed at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health that contains more than 1300 statutory and regulatory provisions affecting volunteer activities—to access certain employment laws in 60 jurisdictions. Analyses of the laws revealed that fewer than half of the jurisdictions have laws that protect seniority, vacation time, sick time, or overtime privileges. Additionally, there is tremendous variance and lack of uniformity among the jurisdictions concerning employment status requirements, geographic constraints, time limitations, and economic impacts. Major disasters often necessitate interjurisdictional response. To facilitate effective deployment of volunteers, employment laws should be uniform across the states. Furthermore, limitations that impede volunteer responders should be eliminated. |
| تدمد: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d41af9db884fd76bb68a08dbdcc01d9d https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304534 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....d41af9db884fd76bb68a08dbdcc01d9d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15410048 00900036 |
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