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Employee Wellness Benefits for Your Quick Service Restaurant Workers

Payactiv

Wages, management, and scheduling are top concerns for QSR employees, based on an analysis of exit interviews and a review of text messages exchanged between employers and employees. In 2022, QSRs already cut operating hours by an average of 6.4 hours per week compared to pre-pandemic levels to compensate for staff shortages.

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Legislative lowdown: Pay transparency requirements are coming to Washington, DC

HR Brew

It amends DC’s 2014 Wage Transparency Act, which states that employers cannot prohibit workers from discussing wages with other employees. It amends DC’s 2014 Wage Transparency Act, which states that employers cannot prohibit workers from discussing wages with other employees.

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The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Can Save Your Business Money

HR Bartender

That’s why I wanted to share some information about a tax credit opportunity I learned about. But did you know that it was on hiatus in 2014, and after a short renewal, is in hiatus again? Why did the WOTC program take a hiatus in January 2014? The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is not a new program. Virgin Islands.

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Free White Paper: Your Guide to 2024 California Employment Laws

HRWatchdog

For instance, when the governor signed SB 616 , he enacted a major expansion of the state’s paid sick leave (PSL) law, called the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, increasing the amount of leave employers are required to provide from at least three days or 24 hours of PSL to five days or 40 hours.

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New Employment Laws Starting in 2024

HRWatchdog

Leaves of Absence Governor Newsom signed SB 616 , a major expansion of the state’s paid sick leave (PSL) law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014. Leaves of Absence Governor Newsom signed SB 616 , a major expansion of the state’s paid sick leave (PSL) law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014.

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Working Mothers More Burdened by Household Chores and Childcare during Lockdown

HR Digest

Mothers are more likely to have reduced work hours, lost jobs, and doing the bulk of childcare at home at the cost of paid work and there are fears that they will face career harm once the lockdown lifts. The responses revealed that mothers in two-parent households are on average, doing a third of the uninterrupted paid-work hours of fathers.

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The ever-changing problem of EX and why trust can help solve it

HRExecutive

We work with hundreds of companies every week, covering questions about learning and development, skills architecture, hybrid work, talent management and organization design. During this period, workers were treated as disposable commodities, with long working hours, poor (sometimes, even unsafe) working conditions and very low pay.