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4 Questions HR Leaders Need to Ask About Holiday Workers Now

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With an unemployment rate at a 17-year low of 4.1%, retail and delivery companies have executed a variety of tactics to land workers in a tight labor market, whether it’s through candy and movie-ticket giveaway s or voluntarily increasing the minimum wage to $11 an hour. So what is the right worker experience mix?

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Is Job Skills Training a Valuable Perk? Hourly Workers Say Yes

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A big part of making good on these pledges is offering job skills training to entry-level employees and hourly wage workers. Paul’s is just one of many examples from a recent Luminera Foundation report on how employer-sponsored education programs can put hourly workers on the career path to higher wage jobs.

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The C Sheet November 5 | Demystifying The Great Resignation, The Importance of Learning, and Good Habits

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Initial guesses are its wages—it has the nation’s highest minimum wage at $13.69/hour—and hour—and other progressive workplace regulations. ‘I The ability to learn, re-learn, and unlearn is widely beneficial for people in their careers. But who has time to make learning a priority with a busy schedule?

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Winning Back Unhappy Service Industry Workers Takes Pay & Appreciation

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Service industry workers were laid off en masse in 2020, but many who have come back are now voluntarily walking out the door again citing low pay and a lack of appreciation shown by employers. For the last 12 years, the federal minimum wage has stayed at just $7.25/hour, And the reasons? In simple terms: they are fed up.

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How to Win Back & (Re)Value the Wage Workers Lost During the Pandemic

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Service industry workers were laid off en masse in 2020, but many who have come back are now voluntarily walking out the door again citing low pay and a lack of appreciation shown by employers. For the last 12 years, the federal minimum wage has stayed at just $7.25/hour, And the reasons? In simple terms: they are fed up.

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A ‘Chief Happiness Officer’ on How to Keep Employees by Keeping Them Happy

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How can companies hit reset and win workers back by building a stronger employee base hinging on a living wage, happiness, and respect? To further explore this important question, Visier spoke with Tia Graham, the self-proclaimed “Chief Happiness Officer” of her company Arrive at Happy and author of upcoming book, The Happy Leader.

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Rising Wages: Time to Know Your Total Cost of Workforce (TCOW)

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This includes a $15/hour minimum wage, sick time, vacation, a $4,000 new child benefit for new parents who don’t receive paid parental leave, among other things. In May, Facebook announced a new set of standards for vendors and contractors with respect to employee pay and benefits. Considering Increasing Pay? Consider This.