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Customers React Negatively to Wage Gap Disclosures, HBR Study Finds

Trusaic

Lawmakers across the globe are finding that pay data reporting requirements for employers are critical for helping to close the gender wage gap. mandatory public disclosure of wage gaps lays bare the integrity of an organization’s pay practices. As recently seen in the U.K. and states throughout the U.S.,

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Expert’s Top Tips for Training a Retail Workforce for the Holiday Season

SumTotal

The National Retail Federation (NRF) President and CEO Matthew Shay estimates that retailers will hire 650,000 seasonal workers for the 2018 holiday period, up 10% from 2017. For employers, this volume of new workers presents significant hiring, onboarding and training challenges. I’ve worked in retail for almost 30 years.

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EEOC Busy: Focus on Sexual Harassment

HRWatchdog

The agency continues to focus on sexual harassment in America’s workplaces as recent press releases demonstrate: On June 13, 2018, the EEOC announced a multimillion-dollar sexual discrimination settlement against a transportation supplier. The EEOC continues to collect money from employers in lawsuits and settlements for sexual harassment.

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How to legally manage remote employees

Business Management Daily

Remote employees also need training in time-keeping and safety and accident prevention. The Census Bureau’s time use survey concluded that’s the percentage of private-sector employees who teleworked at least some of the time in 2018. Source: Telecommuting Trend Data , GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com 2018. Setting remote work rules.

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Hourly Worker Retention: Why It’s so Difficult and 4 Ways to Improve It

Terryberry

Work Institute estimates that one in four employees left their jobs in 2018, and that more than three-fourths of that turnover could have been prevented by employers. Doing so reduces the costs associated with recruiting and training new hires, leads to higher employee morale and loyalty, and results in greater productivity.

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Pay Data Reporting is Not Going Away

Trusaic

Employers with 100 or more employees now have until September 30, 2019, to file wages-paid and hours-worked data for 2017 and 2018, respectively, in addition to other employee demographic data (known collectively as “Component 2”). earlier this year. We recently hosted a webinar concerning EEO-1 Component 2 filing.

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A Review Of Perspectives 2018 From A Workforce Management Perspective

SumTotal

Josh Bersin’s keynote , “Learning in the Flow of Work” was very engaging and, as always, Josh loaded us up with insightful data. The cost of training an internal candidate is a fraction of the cost of hiring externally. Training and promoting internally results in a more engaged and productive workforce and lowers your overall costs.