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Is Unstable Shift Scheduling Hurting Your Sales?

Zenefits

As businesses extend their hours to meet market demands and remain agile during economic shifts, many employ workers as needed, especially small companies on tight budgets with limited staff. The negative impact of irregular schedules on workers, especially hourly wage earners, is well-documented. Shift scheduling practices.

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4 Ways Time Tracking Benefits Employees and Organizations

Hppy

If you’re working for yourself, incorrectly pricing a project could result in you working for less than the minimum wage. Most people struggle to answer what they get up to on a normal day in the office. They can’t tell you how much time it took to complete a task. Here are four benefits to setting up a time-tracking system in your office.

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Effects of COVID on Australian Market

Global People Strategist

The impact of COVID-19 can be felt by most industries in Australia in the form of reduced employee working hours, wage cuts, and staff reductions. This is why the Federal Government has introduced the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme. Decline in Number of Hours Worked. million hours. Statistics. percent in March.

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How the Great Resignation Has Impacted 10 Industries

Kazoo

Record-breaking numbers of people are leaving their jobs, particularly low-wage workers. Wages for low-income workers have seen their sharpest uptick since the 18-month-long Great Recession that started in 2007, and companies are starting to offer large signing bonuses and even free college tuition to their workers. More than 4.5

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CHARTS FOR SMART HR PROS: Turnover Is Back to Pre-Recession Levels Across America.

The HR Capitalist

The economy is back to the point where your employees are naturally inclined to quit at a rate equal to what happened before the 2007-2009 recession. The economy is back to the point where your employees are naturally inclined to quit at a rate equal to what happened before the 2007-2009 recession. and Canada. The raise is small—$1.50

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Vacation Pay Lawsuit Takes Excursion to Appellate Court and Back

HR Daily Advisor

Winnebago County, Illinois recently attempted to avoid a claim for accrued but unpaid vacation pay under the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA) by invoking the 1-year statute of limitations in the Illinois Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Sergey_Peterman / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Walmart $1 Billion Investment Reaffirms Importance of Total Compensation

Compensation Today

By Tess Taylor, PayScale Senior Blogger and Mykkah Herner, PayScale Director of Compensation Everywhere you turn, there’s more news about big companies like Target, McDonald’s and TJ Maxx raising the minimum wage. But as any savvy professional knows, wages are only a piece of the total compensation puzzle. percent overall in the US.