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Gender Pay Gap Transparency Act: A Push for Equality or a Waste of Time?
Gov. Jerry Brown soon will decide whether California's big businesses must reveal salary data for male and female employees, a move supporters say will help resolve women's entrenched pay inequity,…
Labor Unions Fight Immigration Enforcement
Labor union organizers are instructing their members to resist worksite immigration enforcement raids. Through contract negotiations, they hope to restrict employers from cooperating with federal immigration agents
Four Myths about the Multigenerational Workplace
None of us, as they say, are getting any younger—which is what makes aging such an interesting aspect of workplace diversity. These misperceptions about workers of all ages may be…
Supreme Court Opens Term by Hearing Arguments in Class-Action Waiver Case
The number of class-action lawsuits against employers could be dramatically reduced, should the Supreme Court let companies require workers to arbitrate their problems instead of joining together to sue their…
Your Career Q&A: Succeeding in a New Industry
Never assume anything on a new job, and especially don't try to change things before you even know the way to the watercooler. Your first task is to learn to…
Could the Consequences of Trump’s Travel Ban Include Increased IT Outsourcing, Higher Salaries?
When the Trump administration banned people from certain countries from entering the United States, tech firms complained that they would have a harder time recruiting IT workers from overseas. Foreign…
Recruitment Marketing Forum Launched to Support Emerging Discipline
The emerging practice of recruitment marketing has a new online community forum advancing its mission: Rally Recruitment Marketing
Canada: Will NAFTA Changes to Labor Standards Be ‘Very Difficult’?
What changes can we expect to see in NAFTA 2 on environmental and labor standards, if agreement is reached?
Australia: Freedom of Political Communication Does Not Help Employee who Disagrees with Policies
An employee's personal ability to express his or her own political views is not protected by Australia's implied constitutional freedom of political communication
Help Employees, Managers Recognize the Why of Lateral Moves
The world is flat. Well, maybe not the actual world, but the world of work has certainly flattened