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Massachusetts Gender & Racial Wage Gap Persists, Despite the Equal Pay Act

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The most populous state in New England, and the home of the diverse metropolitan city of Boston, seemed poised to take a leadership role with the 2016 passage of The Massachusetts Equal Pay Act ( MEPA ). 3 minute read . Bar employers from retaliating against employees exercising their rights under the law; and.

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Managing A Total Talent Workforce – The Impact Of The Gig Economy

Accurate Background

Rather than being recruited as full-time or contracted employees, these workers secure individual and on-demand “gigs” – a process that very often happens via an online platform or mobile app. . . Following the outbreak of COVID-19, workplace culture shifted dramatically and irreversibly. Indeed, the phenomenon of 47.8

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Common Workplace-Related Holiday Questions

HRWatchdog

State and federal wage and hour laws don’t require private employers to provide employees with paid holidays, close their business on a holiday or a pay a premium to employees for working on a holiday — you’re free to set your own policy for holiday pay and time off. Not everything is merry and bright during the holiday season.

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Sure, She Works Here. But, Do We Employ Her?

HR Daily Advisor

Essential terms and conditions can include: Hiring; Rejecting new hires; Training; Discipline; Setting pay and benefits; Establishing working conditions; Firing or demanding firing of workers; Assigning tasks; and Providing oversight or evaluations. Consider the following situation: You hired a worker through a staffing agency.

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2016 Midyear Employment Law Update

HRWatchdog

It’s already been a busy 2016 for employers, with lots of action from the California Legislature, federal and state agencies, local governments and our courts. CalChamber’s free 2016 Midyear Employment Law Update white paper recaps some of the more significant developments to date in these areas: Wage and Hour.

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Don’t let this be the year that your business faces a big wage and hour lawsuit

The Employer Handbook

” Send Off. Today, for the myriad retweets and mentions that they give me on Twitter, I want to give a timely shout out to my friends at Seyfarth Shaw’s Workplace Class Action Blog and share with all of you suckers that a summary of their 2016 Workplace Class Action Report is now available.

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Confronting the Pay Equity Gap: Identifying and Resolving Issues of Unequal Pay

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But when there’s a bias or even discrimination in compensation practices, there’s a disruption of the talent pool that can lead to disengagement, lower productivity and financial losses. Payscale found a racial wage gap showing that women of all races and ethnic groups earn less than white men. This means that women receive only$0.82