?The scorching heat wave across the U.S. and around the world is creating dire working conditions. Nearly 1,500 U.S. cities broke daily high temperatures in the past 30 days: Lancaster, Calif., set... Read more »
?With inflation in the U.K. at 10 percent, employers and retirement plan trustees are left grappling with the best way to administer their plans. The two types of retirement schemes—defined benefit plans... Read more »
?Over the past two years, a series of tragedies has brought social justice issues and politics to the forefront of the national conversation. The murder of George Floyd made headlines worldwide. Then... Read more »
?Two years after launching its Together Forward @Work initiative, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is partnering with other organizations to support racial equity and representation once again. In August, SHRM... Read more »
?A collection of nurses unions asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order the U.S. Department of Labor to make permanent the agency’s emergency temporary standard... Read more »
For the past few years, California’s comprehensive privacy law known as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) included an important partial exemption for employees, applicants, and independent contractors, collectively known as workforce... Read more »
?Victoria M. Walker viewed her tweet as a way to put information in one central location to avoid answering individual inquiries from fellow reporters while on vacation. It didn’t work out that... Read more »
?When John Fenton, CEO of Patriot Rail Co., first looked at his railroad’s stevedoring business, it was ugly: Productivity was weak. Safety was sketchy. Freight damage claims were high. He headed to... Read more »
Quiet quitters are taking the phrase “phoning it in” to a whole new level. Today, 21 percent of employed Americans are doing the bare minimum, according to an August 2022 ResumeBuilder.com survey,... Read more »
The pace of wage increases at small businesses in the U.S. continues to escalate, as August saw average hourly earnings growth hitting 5.18 percent compared to 5.03 percent in July 2022, according... Read more »