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Archives for November 6, 2023
How Microsoft’s Menopause Benefits Improve Workplace Equity
Women likely to be affected by menopause, as a group, account for 20% of the female workforce.
ANALYSIS: Employers Face ULP Surge After Workplace Policy Ruling
Employers can expect to face a dramatic increase in the number of unfair labor practice charges in 2024, due to a recent National Labor Relations Board decision that provides employees with an easier path to challenge workplace policies—even those that have nothing to do with unions.
Most Americans still have to commute every day. Here’s how that experience has changed.
The average American commute is about 27 minutes.
When Your Age, and Everyone Else’s, Is Showing
Colleagues of different generations can bridge age gaps. But first, they must ask some questions.
Changes to Alabama Tax Laws Impose New Reporting Requirements on Employers
Three new rules will take effect this year that alter the overtime wages subject to Alabama withholding tax and employers’ requirements in reporting those newly exempt wages. On October 31, 2023, the Alabama Department of Revenue’s Income Tax Administration issued three final rules that take effect December 3, 2023,
Will AI Create More Jobs Than It Will Eliminate?
It’s a common claim that AI is taking people’s jobs, but the argument often overlooks the opposite. AI also creates jobs. Take Apple .CEO Tim Cook recently announced that Apple’s U.K. offices would be growing with staff dedicated to AI.
Apple isn’t the only tech business expanding its AI staff. Amazon is
Data Protection Update: Q4 Noteworthy Dates
Cross Border Transfers of Data.
UK Data Transfers. The UK government has published a U.S. “adequacy decision” which permits U.S. organizations that have certified to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and UK Extension to receive personal data transferred from the UK to the U.S. after October 12, 2023.
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Union Lawyers Explain New Labor and Employment Laws
At the Power At Work Blog, one of our mission-focused tasks is to lift up great work by others discussing, analyzing, and assessing issues that are important to workers, worker power, and unions. That’s why we publish The Weekly Download each Friday (subscribe to get it emailed to your