WFH and Wages: Najah Farley

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Gaby is joined this week by the brilliant and delightful Najah Farley of the National Employment Law Project to talk about working from home, essential workers, and fighting for a living wage. How has work changed for the better or worse since the pandemic started? What can you do to protect yourself financially and emotionally? Plus, some hilarity involving the state of Florida and "your white co-worker Meghan." Have we mentioned that Najah is an incredible guest? Then, Gaby hears from listeners who have started their own small businesses all about their motivations, struggles, and successes. For more awesome businesses by Bad With Money listeners, see the links below! Bad with Money Listener Small Businesses: Fleshpot - www.etsy.com/shop/FLESHPOT/ Drawmaturgy - www.drawmaturgy.etsy.com Covention - www.DearQueerie.wixsite.com Matisse DuPont - www.matissedupont.com Solilo and Co - www.soliloandco.etsy.com/ Caveat NYC - www.caveat.nyc/ Rexington Funk - www.rexingtonfunk.com/ THE SHORTLIST - www.shortlistshop.com.au/ Dizzie - www.dizzie.co.nz/ Send an email to gabyisbadwithmoney@gmail.com or leave a voicemail at 844-474-4040. For a transcript of the show here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upSYsj9aRaL1lNNAEZ5vATaW0c22AII6mNtuAdPti8A/edit Follow NELP on Twitter: @NELPNews Follow Najah on Twitter: @NajahFarley Find Najah on LinknedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/najah-farley-she-her-728b736 Here are some NELP publications on the issues we discussed: On retaliation and wage theft: https://www.nelp.org/publication/exposing-wage-theft-without-fear/ On the Raise the Wage Act and the $15 minimum wage: https://www.nelp.org/publication/u-s-needs-15-minimum-wage/ The yearly report on raises across the country: https://www.nelp.org/publication/raises-from-coast-to-coast-in-2021/ Follow Bad With Money on Instagram: @bwmpod Follow Gaby Dunn on Instagram: @gabyroad Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You got problems that you ought to be concerned with, who are you?
0:04.0	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shame, full secret, but you're not the only one
0:13.0	Featured in financial fears with a breath of sun.
0:16.0	Now your healing has begun. It's bad with money with Gabby.
0:21.0	Done.
0:22.0	Hello, I'm Gabby Dunn and this is Bad with Money.
0:26.0	Our guest today is Naja Farley, a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project.
0:32.0	NELP.
0:33.0	Naja's experience lends itself towards living wages and workplace standards enforcement.
0:39.0	According to the NELP website, NELP fights for policies to create good jobs, expand access to work,
0:45.0	and strengthen protections and support for low-wage workers and unemployed workers.
0:50.0	Since the pandemic began, the idea of work and the workplace has changed immensely.
0:56.0	For many, home became the new workplace.
0:59.0	And that meant a slew of new challenges and also benefits.
1:04.0	Right now, according to a 2020 study by the Pew Research Center, 71% of Americans are working from home.
1:11.0	Only 20% of those worked from home before the coronavirus, and more than half of that 71%
1:17.0	said that they'd like to continue working from home even after this is over.
1:22.0	For low-income workers, 76% said their job cannot be done from home.
1:27.0	So clearly, there is a class issue coming up here.
1:32.0	So how does one fight for workplace standards when everything is so out of whack?
1:37.0	And what are the benefits for black women of not being in the office during BLM in June
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