With about a month to go until the election, we’re offering a guide to where the Presidential candidates stand on key workplace issues – in their words and in the view of various experts. If you haven’t yet registered to vote, voter registration deadlines (calendar) are upon us now!
Before delving into issues, we offer advice to employers from employment law experts on managing politics in the workplace – good to review in this highly contentious year:
- Employer dos and don’ts for 2016 elections (NLRB-friendly version)
- Election 2016: Political Speech and Activity in the Workplace
- Politics in the Workplace: A Primer for the 2016 Elections
- Politics in the Workplace: What Must Employers Allow?
The candidates on healthcare
- Snapshot of Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Seven Health Care Issues – Kaiser Family Foundation. covering Health Insurance Coverage and Costs; Medicaid; Medicare; Prescription Drugs; The Opioid Epidemic; Reproductive Health; and Zika
- Ballotpedia: 2016 presidential candidates on healthcare – Covering the positions of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine; Donald Trump and Mike Pence; Jill Stein; Gary Johnson
- SHRM: Trump vs. Clinton on Health Care: Their Differences
- The Politics & Election Portal: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump on Healthcare
- The Politics & Election Portal: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump on Prescription Drugs
HR & workplace issues
- President Trump? President Clinton? A Workplace Law Preview – Richard Meneghello, Fisher Phillips
- Hillary, or The Donald: A voting guide for employers – Robin Shea, Employment & Labor Insider
- The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on the Supreme Court and Employment Law – Kara Maciel and Daniel Deacon, Virginia Human Resources Today Magazine
- Trump will be GREAT for workers’ comp!
- What Clinton And Trump Would Do For Gig Economy Workers
- The Politics & Election Portal: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump on Minimum Wage
- The Politics & Election Portal: Clinton vs. Trump: Equal Pay for Equal Work
- The Politics & Election Portal: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump on Immigration
On the issues – from the candidates: