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Workspan Daily
05/29/2024
Education and Other Total Rewards Offerings While aspects of the fiduciary rule are mostly black and white, understanding workers’ general financial health may fall into more of a gray area for TR professionals.
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Workspan Daily
02/20/2025
In doing so, it fell back to its determination and reasoning from that case, which affirmed a lower court’s ruling that:
;The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides the DOL the statutory authority to undertake rulemaking to set a minimum salary level and, specifically, to set a minimum salary threshold for white-collar exemptions.;
;Under the FLSA, the agency’s exercise of that authority does not violate constitutional principles.;
In initially suing the DOL, Mayfield, citing the
Loper Bright and
Encino cases, had argued:
;The overtime exemption language spelled out in the FLSA only mentions a worker’s job duties (and not salary thresholds), and;
;Salary should not be a prime determinant in whether a person is exempt from overtime pay requirements.;
(In the
Encino case, the Supreme Court instructed courts to take a broader view of FLSA exemptions instead of a narrow one.)
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Workspan Daily
02/11/2026
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;Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for teenagers declined to 13.6%, while the rates for adult men (3.8%), adult women (4.0%), and people who are White (3.7%), Black (7.2%), Asian (4.1%) or Hispanic (4.7%) showed little change.;
;The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little during the month, at 1.8 million, but is up by 386,000 from a year prior.
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Workspan Daily
02/24/2023
UK’s Four-Day Workweek Experiment Deemed a Hit The United Kingdom’s four-day workweek trial came to a close recently and many of the employers participating don’t want it to stop, according to the Wall Street Journal .
Workspan Daily
04/19/2023
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When McDonald’s recently implemented a round of layoffs , it first sent an internal email to its U.S. employees and some international staff directing them to work from home so the company could “deliver staffing decisions” virtually, according to the Wall Street Journal .
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Journal Article
12/05/2022
Relative to their shares of the survey population, solo nontraditional workers were more likely to be White, married or partnered, have very high (more than $200,000) household incomes, be older than age 50 and report having done this kind of work for five or more years.
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Workspan Daily
07/14/2023
Hollywood Actors Will Join Writers on Strike Negotiations between the actors union and Hollywood studios on a new labor contract stalled late Wednesday night, clearing the way for performers to join striking writers in a standoff, the Wall Street Journal reports .
Workspan Daily
05/21/2025
Too much to do, too little time, blah blah blah…
You may not have the workday wherewithal of Wardle, who over a 3.5-hour lunch “a long, long, long time ago” sat at a table with five cohorts and hammered out the storylines, scripts and character development for Disney classics “Finding Nemo,” “Wall-E,” “Cars,” “Monsters Inc.” and “Toy Story” — perhaps setting power-lunch productivity records in the process.
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Workspan Daily
01/20/2022
Wage
Increases The
headline of a recent article in the Wall
Street Journal touted “Companies Plan Big Raises for Workers in 2022.”
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Workspan Daily
11/04/2022
Ride-share technology company Lyft said it’s cutting 13% of staff, or nearly 700 jobs, to reduce costs and get ahead of choppy economic conditions, the Wall Street Journal reported .