Your Boss Wants You Back. But Is It Safe?

Life Kit

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Business, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Returning to work during the COVID-19 pandemic? This episode helps workers understand their rights, including current rules about unemployment, safety concerns and underlying conditions.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Ryan Mulherne.
0:02.9	One of the things I miss most during quarantine is going to the movies.
0:05.8	If you want to support your local independent theater, check online and see if they might
0:09.5	be offering movies to stream or other content like Q&As with filmmakers and maybe consider
0:14.7	donating or buying a gift card.
0:20.9	This is NPR's life kit.
0:22.2	I'm Yuki Naguchi.
0:23.7	And I'm Chris Arnold and we both been doing stories about the impact of reopening as business
0:29.1	all over the country or trying to resume some kind of normalcy here amidst the pandemic.
0:34.2	Right.
0:35.2	And depending on where you live and when you're listening to this, it varies, right?
0:40.0	Because phase two is different than phase three, but of course that means different things
0:43.4	in different states.
0:44.4	Cases work down and now they're up again.
0:47.8	Everyone is living with different realities.
0:50.7	And while all these things are changing, some people are thinking, should I go back
0:54.6	to work?
0:55.6	Or already back at work and some people are like, uh, wait a minute, you know, this is
1:00.0	way not safe.
1:01.0	How come nobody's wearing a mask here?
1:03.6	People are running into all kinds of problems.
1:05.6	Right.
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