Employees have a new favorite perk, and it’s not free craft-brewed beer, student loan repayment benefits or eco-friendly roof gardens at the office. It’s much simpler: More time off. In its 17th annual employee benefits trend survey released this week — just as Spring Break season hit its peak — …
As older workers look to retire, companies reckon with how to replace outgoing skillsets. The youngest baby boomers are around 55 years old. The oldest are in their 70s. Most Americans don’t remember a workforce without the largest generation. And yet, as boomers enter their final years in the workforce, their retirements are …
If you ask John Combs what his biggest worry is, he’ll say: “How will I feed Red?” Red is actually white. He’s a labradoodle rescue, just tall enough for Combs to pet if he reaches over the armrest of his wheelchair. Combs, 42, has cerebral palsy. He has difficulty speaking. …
Workers may not be replaced by robots anytime soon, but they’ll likely face shorter hours, lower pay, and stolen time. When blue-collar workers go on strike, demands such as wage increases and better hours are usually the objective. But when nearly 8,000 Marriott International employees marched outside hotels for two months in …
A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found. The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National …
Working on a cruise ship may sound like an exciting opportunity for those who like to travel, but the reality of many cruise ship jobs is far less glamorous, two lawyers who represent cruise line workers and passengers told Business Insider. The hours are long, the pay is low, and …
The United States has a record number of job openings, another sign workers have greater opportunity to find better jobs, according to new data the Labor Department released Tuesday. President Trump celebrated the news, tweeting “Incredible number just out, 7,036,000 job openings. Astonishing – it’s all working!” The president made a slight typo in …
Growing calls for a four-day week are likely to go unheeded FRANCES O’GRADY, the head of Britain’s Trades Union Congress, threw down a gauntlet on September 10th. “We can win a four-day working week,” she told members. While partly a reflection of the emboldened state of Britain’s unions, the demand …
Big Blue, late to cloud computing and mobile tech, has been undergoing a restructuring that has laid off thousands of workers. A purported class-action lawsuit brought by high-profile attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan claims many older workers have lost their jobs despite having needed skills. Shannon Liss-Riordan has been compared to “a …
Maybe we all need ‘the right to disconnect’ For the average working person, there’s no greater feeling than powering down your computer and kissing goodbye to your avalanche of work emails for the day. If we’re lucky enough to disconnect from the job on evenings and weekends, we’re overjoyed to …
The job market looks awesome. Unemployment is near its lowest levels since the 1960s, we’re in the midst of the largest, longest streak of payroll growth in recorded history and there are signs employers are finally raising wages. But those numbers obscure the experiences of millions of part-timers, temps, older …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand firm that let its employees work four days a week while being paid for five says the experiment was so successful that it hoped to make the change permanent. The firm, Perpetual Guardian, which manages trusts, wills and estates, found the change actually …