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Good Faith Defense Upheld for Wage Statement Penalties

HRWatchdog

The case sought meal break premium pay as well as penalties for failure to pay final wages at separation and failure to report premium pay on wage statements. If this case sounds familiar, it’s because the case started back in 2007 and had quite a journey though the court system.

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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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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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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.

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Jennifer Gilmore: “Increase access to healthcare and childcare”

Thrive Global

In 2007, she was recruited to oversee the establishment and strategic growth of Feeding San Diego. The majority of food banking is logistics. You’re sourcing, storing, packaging and distributing food in a large warehouse. Everything we do is to better prepare the individuals we serve to better get and keep a job.

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“It is complicated!” With Tyler Gallagher & Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro

Thrive Global

Because organizations still value long inflexible hours, women bear the brunt of this as they tend to take responsibility for the bulk of childcare which reduces their ability to match the working hours of men. Her current work examines ideological currency and calling as well as employee-organization relationships and health.