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The Best Benefit to Address the Manufacturing Talent Shortage

Payactiv

The Department of Labor’s database shows the losses in skilled employees in this sector from 2002 to 2021. The role of manufacturing in powering the economy can’t be understated. The manufacturing sector is expected to have 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030. Long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Alfred P. on the economy.

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Overcoming the Manager Divide: How HR can Accelerate the Path to Gender Pay Equity

Visier

Discovering the truth behind the gender wage gap is no easy task — and neither is closing it. Discovering the truth behind the gender wage gap is no easy task — and neither is closing it. Over the past few months, I had the privilege of taking part in a ground-breaking research project. Here’s what we found.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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Hawaii Amended Equal Pay Act: Ensuring Fair Compensation

Trusaic

The amendment prevents employers from pay discrimination by paying wages “at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to other employees in the establishment for substantially similar work.” percent of the median weekly wage of their male counterparts in 2021. percent in 2002 to a peak of 92.8

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The Truth About Millennials’ Work Ethics

Fond

Both Baby Boomers and Gen X reminisce often about the early days of their own careers, proudly recalling the sixty, seventy, even eighty hour work weeks they once endured with an implied longing for “ the good old days.” They advocate for wage growth. When it comes to millennials’ work ethics, people love to speculate.

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What Does it Mean to be Self-Employed?

Zenefits

They put in about 1 million hours a week and contribute $1 trillion to the U.S. they can be as diverse as a physician in private practice or an artist who sells paintings online. 75% are the sole or major wage-earner in their household. Who would give up a steady paycheck to go out on their own chasing gig after gig?

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Thrive Global

Growing up in a middle-class family in the 70s we never wanted for anything. There was steak on the grill every Saturday night, parties in the basement, big meals at holidays, breakfast on the electric griddle at the kitchen table, plenty of Halloween candy and we never went hungry. At the movies we always got popcorn, candy, and Coke.