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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
09/10/2024
For instance, when considering a white-collar, salaried job, a younger employee may be more likely to turn down an opportunity at a company that does not align with that candidate’s political or personal beliefs, Bonchev said.
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Workspan Daily
03/14/2023
Asian-American women earn 93 cents for /$1 men make; White women, 83 cents; Black women, 70 cents; and Hispanic women, 65 cents.
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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
06/29/2026
On Feb. 18, 2025, he signed “ Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies ,” an executive order that allowed the White House to have “presidential supervision and control” over independent federal agencies that had traditionally operated outside of its direct influence.
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Workspan Daily
02/15/2022
As the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out , the rate of people quitting jobs in private educational services “rose more than in any other industry in 2021, according to federal data.”
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Workspan Daily
04/07/2023
Diaz had accused Tesla of failing to act when he repeatedly complained to managers that employees at the Fremont, California, factory frequently used racist slurs and scrawled swastikas, racist caricatures and epithets on walls and work areas.
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