Human Resources
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Pandemic creating difficult situations for employersNov 19, 2020 10:00 pm - The COVID-19 pandemic has created some tricky situations for employers to navigate, perhaps none more difficult than the politics. That was just one issue addressed in T...
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You deserve a work-life balance, even if you're child-free in a pandemic
Nov 15, 2020 5:10 am - Q: I'm the reader who wrote about being a weary child-free worker in a federal workplace where parents were being allowed full pay for reduced hours. Many of my co-worke...
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Pandemic firings lead to wave of bias claims from parents
Nov 14, 2020 5:25 am - Parents who've lost their jobs during the pandemic are driving a surge of litigation, alleging their employers discriminated against them for taking care of their kids w...
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Mothers are being driven out of the workforce in droves
Nov 08, 2020 5:26 am - When they met as students in Chicago, 20 years ago, Vondetta Taylor and Jennifer Anderson were all aspiration. Taylor was training to be a chef. Anderson was working tow...
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In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day
Nov 07, 2020 5:22 am - Years before "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" became a thing, my dad occasionally brought me to his office as the need arose. There was something a bit thrillin...
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Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problem
Nov 07, 2020 5:20 am - Uber Technologies and Lyft won a big victory on a state ballot measure that could have threatened their businesses by changing their relationship with workers. But this ...
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Paylocity revenue up 7% in quarterNov 05, 2020 10:00 pm - SCHAUMBURG - Paylocity Holding Corp., a provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, said revenue grew 7% in its fiscal year first quarter. "Despite the ch...
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India's engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.
Nov 01, 2020 5:24 am - Whenever Benjamin Kaila, a database administrator who immigrated from India to the United States in 1999, applies for a job at a U.S. tech company, he prays that there a...
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Worker resents having to pick up slack for working moms and dads
Oct 31, 2020 11:00 pm - Q: Our federal workplace, under the Cares Act, permits parents to work 75% of their hours (30 hours/week, any days or times) for the same pay. I'm glad not to lose my te...
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One potential pandemic upside: Performance reviews are getting simpler
Oct 25, 2020 6:00 am - As the pandemic wore on this spring, Christine Carrillo, the chief executive of Butlr Health, a small online start-up that matches people with therapists, decided to pos...