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Ways to Support Black-Owned Small Businesses

Zenefits

As protests calling for structural reform to fight institutionalized racism and police brutality continue to take place across the country, there’s been a call to support Black-owned businesses. million Black-owned businesses in the United States, according to a 2015 U.S. Why support Black-owned businesses? There are 2.6

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a questionable mug, unpaid volunteers at a yoga studio, and more

Ask a Manager

I belong to a small yoga studio. It is definitely a for-profit business. A small handful of students (less than 10) volunteer to help with tasks. As a student, what is my obligation to raise this as (most likely) illegal, since for-profit businesses are supposed to pay anyone who works for them? Aggh, yoga studios.

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Collaborative Tools in the Times of Coronavirus

HR Digest

The coronavirus pandemic has forced companies all over the world to ask its employees to work from home to avoid any chances of getting the infection. Its Business IM feature allows you to stay connected with text, image, and audio files over instant messaging. It is also free for all businesses to use. Task management: Asana.

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Supporting small businesses during lockdown through ‘virtual craft fairs’.

Thrive Global

The business is run by myself and my sister-in-law, Katie. Katie runs the Lincolnshire and East Anglia side of the business as that is where she lives with her little family. Coronavirus took charge and said “No, sorry! Just as our little business was beginning to really take off. Without them I wouldn’t have a business!

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What New Leave, Stimulus Legislation Mean for HR and Employee Communications

Flimp Communications

To date, the US government has passed three pieces of legislation to address various problems the coronavirus pandemic has caused. The first was a small funding bill (only in Washington is $8 billion small) that was designed to meet immediate needs in terms of testing and lowering treatment costs. Why just two weeks or 12?

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HR says I can’t tell an older colleague they’re wrong, coworker stole creative work, and more

Ask a Manager

I’m an IT manager and when our company went 100% online work, my small team of 3 staff and I helped set up 35 employees with hardware in their homes. Tilda is a creative and runs her own photography business on the side. I caused a coronavirus panic at work. And I never said I had coronavirus. Here we go….

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employee lied about coronavirus to get time off work, coworker sprayed Lysol at me, and more

Ask a Manager

My employee lied about being exposed to coronavirus. She was tagged in pictures (current) in another country. How the hell do you deal with a coworker spraying what is essentially a poison directly at you (Lysol) due to the panic about coronavirus? It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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