General Labor Issues

Daycare at work, long a white-collar benefit, is proving tough to pull off with other employees. Daycare at work, long a white-collar benefit, is proving tough to pull off with other employees. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the…

Friday’s jobs report will show how the labor market fared in April, as the economy faced banking turmoil, rising interest rates and still-high inflation. Other signs show the red-hot labor market is modestly cooling this spring. That in part reflects a return to a more normal job market after a rapid rebound from pandemic layoffs three years ago. But some employers are now also slowing hiring out of caution about the economic outlook.  Friday’s jobs report will show how the labor market…

Pilots at American Airlines Group Inc. voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure authorizing union leaders to call for a strike, though the airline said negotiations are still progressing.  The vote results announced Monday don’t mean a walk off is imminent or inevitable. Federal law makes it difficult for airline unions to go on strike.  Pilots at American Airlines Group Inc. voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure authorizing union leaders to call for a strike, though the…

The largest job-search site has run afoul of the small-business community.  Indeed.com began changing how it charged employers for connecting them with job seekers, pitching the shift as better for small businesses because they could choose which applications to review and pay only for the ones they liked. Instead it created confusion and unexpected costs for many business owners, and now the company is trying to minimize the fallout.  The largest job-search site has run afoul of the…

In “The Wealth of Nations,” the founding text of free-market economics, Adam Smith took it for granted that workers should be paid enough to cover the living costs of themselves and their dependents. “A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him,” wrote Smith. “They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.” In the…

Lisa Donovan was juggling pings from multiple Slack channels and email windows when she inadvertently sent a sensitive company document to the wrong person.  The part-time accountant for a Virginia-based academic coaching firm toggles between 30 instant-messaging channels, four client-email accounts and at least a dozen phone or video calls a day, she says. “It’s, like, ‘Are we on Zoom? Are we on Teams? Did I respond to that? Did I say it right?’” says Ms. Donovan, who works from Richmond, Texas.…

Landlords are contending with a cyclical market downturn and with secular changes in the way people work and live. Landlords are contending with a cyclical market downturn and with secular changes in the way people work and live. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their…

The federal government is missing a crucial link in its plan to greatly expand access to high-speed internet service in rural America: enough workers to get the job done. Fiber splicers—the workers who install, maintain and repair wired broadband networks—are in short supply. “We’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off,” says Jason Jolly, chief executive of Fiberscope LLC, a Sullivan, Mo.-based company that does contracted fiber-splicing work. Mr. Jolly says his five-person crew has been…

The U.S. job market isn’t at a rolling boil anymore. It is hardly tepid. That is good news for the economy, but less good for any investors hoping the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates at its meeting next month, much less embark on an easing campaign anytime soon. The U.S. job market isn’t at a rolling boil anymore. It is hardly tepid. That is good news for the economy, but less good for any investors hoping the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates at its meeting next month, much…

It wasn’t the plan, but MillerKnoll Chief Executive Andi Owen passed on a crucial lesson to bosses everywhere this week: Zoom calls are a tricky venue for giving tough love to staff.Ms. Owen may have learned the hard way. In a video that sparked viral furor on social media, she gives a staff pep talk that shifts in tone as she addresses some employees’ “not-so-nice” questions about staying motivated if bonuses aren’t paid this year.  “‘You can visit Pity City,…