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When a business owner dies without a succession plan, everyone is thrown into turmoil

By Karla L. Miller
Dec 06, 2020 5:15 am - Q: I work for a very small luxury travel agency that was already suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The owner of the company recently passed away, and we are heartb...
Pandemic creating difficult situations for employers

By Orrin Schwarz
Nov 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...
You deserve a work-life balance, even if you're child-free in a pandemic

By Karla L. Miller
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...
Pandemic firings lead to wave of bias claims from parents

David Yaffe-Bellany Bloomberg
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...
Mothers are being driven out of the workforce in droves

Amy Joyce and Ellen McCarthy The Washington Post
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...
In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day

Sarah Green Carmichael Bloomberg
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...
Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problem

Tae Kim Bloomberg
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 ...
Paylocity revenue up 7% in quarter

Nov 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...
India's engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.

Nitasha Tiku The Washington Post
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...
Worker resents having to pick up slack for working moms and dads

By Karla L. Miller
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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