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Unemployment compensation is meant to help keep struggling individuals and families out of poverty while they search for employment. It also is set up to help keep the economy afloat at times when consumer spending would otherwise dip, by giving compensation to individuals so that they can continue to pay their rent or mortgage and […]
The American Staffing Association (ASA) has released its third quarter Skills Gap Index, which identifies the hardest-to-fill occupations in the U.S.,
According to a new report released by PayScale, Inc., putting family first can be costly—literally.
Announced in a press release, ManpowerGroup recently published its global research revealing that 97% of Millennials think they’ll be the generation to finally achieve equal opportunities for women in the workplace.
By Stacey Hawley, The Credo Company Companies endeavor to hire the right candidates, with the right skills, right qualifications and right cultural fit, for their organizations. Finding the right candidates is critical. Recruitment is costly. Turnover is even more costly (typically two times the annual salary and benefits of a role).
It’s one thing to strive for an equitable compensation system, but it’s quite another to really understand whether employees are being paid fairly and what to do if they’re not. With employees having instant access to salary data through the Internet—data that may or may not be relevant to their situations—and the debate becoming a […]
Between 2000 and 2015, the share of married couples where the wife earned at least $30,000 more than the husband increased from 6% to 9%, according to statistics announced in a press release by the United States Census Bureau.
We have a highly structured job classification plan. We have an opening for a “senior” position in a division and would like to offer the opportunity to the person with the next highest seniority on a trial basis to “see if he can do the job”.
The bigger the wheels, the more slowly they turn, and seldom will you find wheels bigger than those inside the U.S. government. The wheels within one particular agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), have been churning for no fewer than 5 years, trying to shape policy to address provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall […]
Wage growth—or lack thereof—continues to be a major issue plaguing the U.S. market, but are some industries faring better than others? New findings from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI) reveal which industries have experienced some of the biggest increases—and biggest declines—in postrecession wage growth.