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Positions and Views on Other Issues where Information is Available: |
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| Jobs |
Positions and Views |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
Biden: As president, Joe Biden will work to create the new jobs that come with a new world. Green-collar jobs will make homes and businesses more energy efficient. Joe Biden has been a leader in the senate, co-sponsoring a worker training program that could help create 3 million new jobs as the U.S. builds a new energy future.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Working Class |
Biden: No Response |
| Affirmative Action |
Biden: Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of affirmative action. He fought Republican attempts to ban affirmative action in federal contracts and to bar funds to administer affirmative action programs.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
Biden: No Response |
| Independent Workers |
Biden: No Response |
| Equal Pay Act |
Biden: No Response |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
Biden: No Response |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
Biden: Joe Biden understands the difficulties of balancing work and family. He supports the Family and Medical Leave Act and knows how important it was to help the 50 million Americans who have taken advantage of up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for sick family members. We can do more though, and that’s why Joe Biden is co-sponsoring the Healthy Families Act—a bill that would make it mandatory for employers of 15 or more workers to provide seven days paid leave for their own or their families’ health care, providing millions of Americans with the flexibility they need to both take care of their families and remain working.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Unemployment Insurance |
Biden: No Response |
| Workplace Protections |
Biden: Since his earliest days in Washington, Senator Biden has advocated making the American workplace the safest in the world. Time and again he has voted to extend OSHA regulations, and vigorously opposed efforts to restrict the application of OSHA coverage.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/22/2008 |
| Mine Safety and Health |
Biden: No Response |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
Biden: Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Trade Adjustment Programs. He opposes taking resources from the trade adjustment assistance program and believes that we need to make the assistance more substantive for those who qualify. Joe Biden believes we should ensure that all workers who are displaced by technological and economic change have access to resources and opportunities.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Job Growth |
Biden: No Response |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
Biden: As the country moves to new energy technologies, Senator Biden is a strong supporter of efforts to help attract and train workers for new green-collar jobs that make homes and businesses more energy efficient. Senator Biden is a co-sponsor of a worker training program that would help U.S. workers get good jobs in an industry that could employ 3 million people if the U.S. launches an ambitious program to build a new energy future.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/22/2008 |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
Biden: No Response |
| Child Labor |
Biden: No Response |
| Quality of Jobs |
Biden: No Response |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
Biden: Joe Biden believes that all employees should be covered by regulations that ensure a safe working environment and their personal safety on the job. He has been a supporter of OSHA regulations since his early days in the Senate and time and time again he has voted to extend OSHA regulations and have vigorously opposed efforts to restrict the application of OSHA coverage.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
Biden: Joe Biden always has been a strong supporter of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). He has long championed efforts to allow Medicaid to provide home- and community-based support services needed by disabled individuals to remain out of institutions. He also fought to allow low-income families with disabled children to buy into the Medicaid program.
Source: www.joebiden.com Date: 12/01/2007 |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
Biden: No Response |
| Workers Benefits |
Biden: No Response |
| Overtime Rights |
Biden: Senator Biden fought to block new federal regulations that undermine the basic employee safeguards and threaten to deny overtime rights to broad categories of American workers such as teachers, nurses, and salespeople.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/22/2008 |
| Employment Discrimination |
Biden: While workplace discrimination is not as obvious as when the Senator Biden’s ancestors faced “No Irish Need Apply,” signs, today minorities, women, and gays hear excuses like, “she won’t fit in,” or “he’s too qualified,” as employers pass on them. It may be subtle, but it’s hate in the heart, nevertheless. So Senator Biden supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to prohibit job discrimination of any kind. He also supports the Fair Pay Restoration Act to overturn a Supreme Court decision that makes it more difficult for women to bring pay discrimination cases.
Source: biden.senate.gov/issues Date: 04/21/2008 |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
Biden: No Response |