Strategies

Prohibit criminal history questions on job applications and postpone background checks

Establish high deductible health plans paired with pre-tax medical expense accounts such as Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) or Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and information tools

Expand court-referred intimate partner violence offenders’ understanding of abuse, teach alternative reactions, and work to change gender role attitudes; also called batterer intervention programs (BIPs)

Establish national standards for the colors of patient wristbands used to alert health care providers about specific conditions such as allergies or elevated fall risk

Offer flexible working arrangements, allowing the duties of a single full-time position to be covered by two part-time employees

Increase the lowest hourly, daily, or monthly compensation that employers may legally pay to workers

Provide employees with child care options at work; care may be provided free of charge, partially subsidized as part of an employee benefit package, or offered at market rates

Regulate short-term loans that must be repaid by a borrower’s next pay day via bans, caps on maximum interest rates and loan amounts, or require minimum loan terms and credit cost

Allow adults to possess a limited amount of marijuana for personal, non-medical use

Promote abstinence from sexual activity, generally only with mention of condoms and birth control to highlight failure rates