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Is Job Skills Training a Valuable Perk? Hourly Workers Say Yes

Visier

A big part of making good on these pledges is offering job skills training to entry-level employees and hourly wage workers. Paul’s is just one of many examples from a recent Luminera Foundation report on how employer-sponsored education programs can put hourly workers on the career path to higher wage jobs.

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How to Motivate Hourly Employees

Fond

An hourly employee is paid for the number of hours they work each week–unlike a salaried employee, who is paid a set wage no matter how many hours they work. This means that they are entitled to at least the minimum wage, as well as overtime pay. Hourly employees make up the majority of the US workforce.

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Walmart US CPO talks business, collaboration, and why she doesn’t get up at 5am

HR Brew

Everybody here knows that,” she said, adding, “I understand how to manage my energy, and I had to learn that.” Everybody here knows that,” she said, adding, “I understand how to manage my energy, and I had to learn that.” And so you learn a lot from being exposed.” After 10 hours of meetings, the day’s not over.

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5 Strategies for Supporting Senior Care Workers

Payactiv

In addition, many of these workers earn near-poverty-level wages. Just consider these figures: Home-care workers earn a median hourly wage of $12.60, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. an hour and a $3,000 signing bonus, depending on location and shift. Working in this sector takes a special kind of person.

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Expert’s Top Tips for Training a Retail Workforce for the Holiday Season

SumTotal

In such a competitive market, some industry insiders are predicting wages to increase by as much as 54%, with additional enticements like employee discounts and special shopping days added to entice new hires further. For employers, this volume of new workers presents significant hiring, onboarding and training challenges.

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Industry Insights: Call Center

Payactiv

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Strategies to Reduce Turnover Among Hourly Wage Workers

Abel HR

As part of our series on revisiting old blog posts, today we wanted to expand upon a previous posting where we detailed three strategies for reducing turnover among hourly wage workers. While these strategies are still certainly valid today, there is still more that you can do to keep your hourly workers from moving on to greener pastures.