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Black Employees Face Three Generations of Unequal Pay to Catch Up to White Colleagues

Visier

Findings show that at the current rate of progress, Black employees in particular won’t reach pay parity with white employees for 78 years. employees from 44 enterprise organizations during 2017-2020. All employees are impacted by pay inequity. It doesn’t just impact Black employees.

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7 Best Practices for the Career Development of Black Employees

Ongig

Supporting your employees and providing them with opportunities for career development is essential for increasing employee satisfaction and retention. But today, we want to focus on African American employees, who are often underrepresented when it comes to career advancement.

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How Employee Resource Groups Can Create Belonging for Black Employees

Great Place to Work

Before Great Place To Work®, my experience with employee resource groups (ERGs) was a mixed bag. But the ERG at my location lacked the “resources” in its title. There was no formal programming, no development opportunities, no resources curated for folks of a similar background. What is an ERG? Get a baseline measurement.

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Maceo Owens teaches HR how to support their ERGs

HR Brew

Then, she stumbled upon the company’s Black employee resource group (ERG) and suddenly felt as though she had found her community. By early 2020, she had become a co-chair of Black@DoorDash, but her excitement was quelled by the social upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and police murder of George Floyd.

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Hair discrimination isn’t unlawful. But, firing a black employee because of her natural hair texture is.

The Employer Handbook

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it had settled a race discrimination lawsuit that centered around an employer’s alleged treatment of a black employee who changed her hairstyle. The owner then directed the employee to begin wearing her wig with straight hair again.

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2.5 million reasons not to refer to black employees as ‘slaves’ or fire them after they complain to HR

The Employer Handbook

Usually, when individuals have counsel to pursue discrimination claims on their behalf, the EEOC will devote its resources elsewhere. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had reached a $2.5 million settlement with a South Beach hotel property to resolve claims of horrible discrimination. settlement.

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Five simple ways to think about DE&I from a global standpoint

HR Brew

Vijay Pendakur, founder and principal at Vijay Pendakur Consulting, and a senior strategist for employee experiences at Salesforce, told the audience that technology can encourage behavioral changes in employees. Diversify your employee resource groups. Time doesn’t revolve around the US. Listen to what people need.