In honor of Labor Day, yesterday Nationwide Arts Coverage Alliance (NAPA) and Freelancers Union launched a brand new report, Co-Designing Employee-Centered Transportable Advantages, primarily based on a brand new survey, interviews, and a collaborative workshop with unbiased staff on what they really want from a contemporary security internet.
Initially, we all know that freelancers want improved entry to healthcare. Because it stands, there are too few choices for the self-employed, with pointless hoops to leap by to acquire it and exorbitant prices to maintain it.
You will have heard us discuss moveable advantages. Transportable advantages would clear limitations for purchasers to disperse cash into an unbiased employee’s account to make use of for healthcare and different advantages like day off. These accounts would then stick with the employee all through the remainder of their gigs, accumulating cash from completely different sources.
The paper, co-authored by FU Government Director Andrea Gordillo and NAPA Co-Director Althea Erickson lays out three concrete coverage fashions lawmakers may pursue now: a pooled Unbiased Employee Profit Fund, a buy-in to New York’s Important Plan, and a Federal Unbiased Employee Well being Plan with expanded ACA subsidies.
Learn the full report, in addition to this op-ed by Andrea and Althea in The Observer.
Keep tuned for extra on this within the weeks and months to come back. The social security internet have to be broadened, and enlargement will solely come if we demand it.
