A growing number of grocers are adopting a novel approach in the race to get their workers vaccinated against COVID-19: providing pay incentives.
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Take Your Lunch Break!
Let’s leave sad desk lunches in 2020.
‘He’s like Tony Stark and she’s like my mom’: How workplace praise diverges between men and women
Too often managers praise women with general, lukewarm language, while men receive compliments lauding their specific talents and skills.
Biden executive order seeks stronger workplace safety guidance from OSHA
Worker advocates hailed the executive order, saying it was the first step in reorienting OSHA toward more stringent safety protections
Don’t Expect Trump’s Workforce Policies to Be Reversed Overnight
With the Biden team focused on issues like COVID response and immigration reform, significant action to rescind the Trump administration’s harmful federal workforce policies could take a back seat.
The Workforce Of The Future: 12 Questions Every Leader Should Ask Right Now
As a part of a global research effort around how the future of work has unfolded in 2020 called Go Forward To Work, we closed off the year by co-hosting a focus group with Dell Technologies tailored for CHROs and their CIO counterparts who are leading the future of work initiatives at each of their companies.
Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of my Administration to halt the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by relying on the best available data and science-based public health measures.
Essential workers exposed to COVID-19 are reporting to work when they can’t get paid to quarantine
At Philadelphia International Airport, where he works as a supervisor helping passengers in wheelchairs on and off planes, Benjamin McMillan says some of his coworkers have come to work even if they’ve been exposed to or infected with COVID-19 because they can’t afford to quarantine.
Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
In the Oval Office for the first time as president, Biden begins to roll back Trump’s legacy.
President Biden is no stranger to the Oval Office, but he walked into the White House’s most famous room for the first time as president on Wednesday, with new paintings hanging from the walls and a stack of executive orders sitting on his desk. Then, he got to work.
Can Biden Reconcile Competing Interests of Domestic Labor and Immigration Reform?
The Biden administration has a number of immigration policy proposals with respect to H-1B temporary work visas for highly skilled workers, agricultural workers, and reinstituting the DACA program.
Labor Law, Union Implications for Employer-Mandated Covid Vaccines
An employer’s decision to require certain employees be vaccinated as a condition of their employment will likely first require bargaining with labor organizations who represent their employees, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore attorneys explain. Employers should not wait until the Covid-19 vaccination is available to start negotiating.
Trump labor board counsel fired after resisting Biden’s call for resignation
Robb said that if he followed through with Biden’s request it “would set an unfortunate precedent” for labor relations in the U.S.
Working from home means sexual harassment has moved online
For many women, working from home during lockdown often means juggling childcare and home-schooling, elder-care, the bulk of the housework, pets and more.
Equal pay for equal work: Can you sue for pay discrimination?
An employer is required, under the Equal Pay Act, to provide men and women who work in the same workplace equal pay for equal work. Nonetheless, you have all heard the statistics before: Men earn more on average than women.
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