Wages and salaries for workers rose 5.1 percent from a year earlier, which helps employees keep up with the rising cost of living but complicates the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tamp down inflation.
Archives for April 2023
The ‘open secret’ in most workplaces: Discrimination against moms is still rampant
Moms are still often laid off while on parental leave, pushed out of workplaces and subjected to stereotypes about their competency. But with few legal protections, attorneys say most cases go unreported.
Needing Younger Workers, Federal Officials Relax Rules on Past Drug Use
As more states legalize marijuana and competition for talent grows fiercer, the U.S. government is loosening guidelines from the “Just Say No” era.
Workers’ retirement expectations at odds with reality, survey finds
What workers think will happen during their golden years is a lot different than what retirees report is actually reality, a new survey found.
What Home Depot’s billion-dollar pay raise may help prove about workers
Home Depot’s decision this year to invest $1 billion in employee wages even as sales are slowing in a weakening consumer economy took some Wall Street analysts by surprise.
Jamie Dimon says he understands workers’ threats to not return to the office, but ‘they can not do it elsewhere’
Three years into the return to office battle, an exasperated JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is not mincing words.
5 Signs Your Boss Is Intimidated By You
Have you ever faced hostility from your boss?
How Leaders Are Enticing Workers Back Into The Office
It’s been three years since the peak of the COVID-19 global health crisis. Although almost every organization is back to “business as usual,” many companies look way different today than in early 2020.
10 things to know about older workers and the labor shortage
This week’s column addresses older workers, who are often perceived as an undervalued segment of the labor force. This lack of recognition was recently upended by a Wall Street Journal headline: “Bosses Want Hard Workers – So They are Hiring Older People.”
Why Gen X isn’t ready to leave the workforce
As some younger workers take career breaks, middle-aged workers are holding onto employment – both because they have to, and because they want to.
The weight bias against women in the workforce is real — and it’s only getting worse
“Pat, you think I eat too much?” Ginni Rometty asked her boss Pat O’Brien at IBM, more than 30 years ago.
California High Court Confirms Wages Due on Weekends, Holidays May Be Paid Next Day
On March 29, 2023, the California Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of an employee’s claim that California Labor Code Section 204 requires employees to be paid on weekends. The California high court declined to review the case Parsons v. Estenson Logistics, LLC, in which an employee
EEOC Issues Joint Statement on Automated Systems and AI Concerns With Other Agencies
On April 25, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint statement pledging to enforce federal laws to “promote responsible innovation” in the context of automated decision-making and artificial
The Benefits and Challenges to Employers of Continuing (or Beginning) to Highlight Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Values in 2023 and Beyond
Nancy A. Johnson and Lauren C. Robertson discuss the intersection of DEI efforts considering the economic realities and the “great resignation.”
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Employers Have Until July 25, 2023 to Implement New OFCCP Disability Self-Identification Form
On April 25, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget approved the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) updated form prospective and current employees must use to voluntarily self-identify as an individual with a disability. The form is applicable to federal contractors and subcontractors subject to Section 503