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How to Motivate Hourly Employees

Fond

An hourly employee is paid for the number of hours they work each week–unlike a salaried employee, who is paid a set wage no matter how many hours they work. This means that they are entitled to at least the minimum wage, as well as overtime pay. Hourly employees make up the majority of the US workforce.

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Is Job Skills Training a Valuable Perk? Hourly Workers Say Yes

Visier

A big part of making good on these pledges is offering job skills training to entry-level employees and hourly wage workers. Paul’s is just one of many examples from a recent Luminera Foundation report on how employer-sponsored education programs can put hourly workers on the career path to higher wage jobs.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Synapse, a Provider of Technology for the Learning and Development Market, Closes US$2.5M Emory University Launches Executive Coaching Diploma Program with Total Brain. hour work week to a four-day, 30-hour work week. Tags: Undocumented Workers, Labor Law, Wage Theft. This week’s fundings: $48M+. in Funding.

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

SumTotal

In such a competitive market, some industry insiders are predicting wages to increase by as much as 54%, with additional enticements like employee discounts and special shopping days added to entice new hires further. For employers, this volume of new workers presents significant hiring, onboarding and training challenges.

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What’s Keeping HR Up at Night in 2020?

HRExecutive

The number of job openings in the U.S. fell from 7.6 million in January 2019 to 6.8 million in January 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Is this an early sign that the talent shortage is dwindling? But regardless of what those numbers reflect, HR professionals continue to worry about maintaining a skilled workforce. Advertisement.

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Why Hospitality Workers Walk Away: Addressing the Root Causes of Turnover

Payactiv

The hospitality industry is experiencing a boom in demand yet faces a significant hurdle: a hiring crisis and a nationwide workforce shortage for key workers, including housekeepers, front desk staff, hotel managers, bartenders, servers, and banqueting staff. across all industries. across all industries.

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The State of Healthcare HR in the New Decade

Precheck

Some retiring employees may be willing to reduce their hours or work part-time to make the generational transition easier. If you have 100 full-time employees drop down to part-time hours, you have to hire even more employees to make up the difference,” Henesey says. The State of Healthcare HR in the New Decade Jan. will require 2.3