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Workspan Daily
11/10/2023
Starbucks employees make an average wage of nearly $17.50 per hour, with baristas earning $15 to $24 an hour and total compensation of roughly $27 per hour including benefits, according to the company.
Workspan Daily
02/26/2024
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Federal regulators will soon field more comments and concerns from employer and industry groups at a public hearing set for March 15 — centering on recent proposed guidance about new requirements for long-term, part-time (LTPT) employees under the SECURE 2.0 Act.
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Workspan Daily
08/28/2024
By 2023, only 15% of private-sector industry workers had access to a defined benefit plan, while more than two-thirds (67%) had access to defined contribution plans, according to the BLS .
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Workspan Daily
02/05/2025
According to the news outlet, an email sent Feb. 5 to all IRS employees stated “specific, critical filing season positions in Taxpayer Services, Information Technology and the Taxpayer Advocate Service are exempt from the [program] until May 15, 2025.”
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Workspan Daily
07/02/2025
Committee OKs Bill Limiting Fiduciary Consideration of ESG
On Wednesday, June 25, the House of Representatives’ Education and Workforce Committee, by a 21-15 vote, approved the
Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act , which seeks to amend ERISA and repeal a 2022 DOL rule under the Biden administration that allowed retirement plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments for plan participants.
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Workspan Daily
10/08/2025
Medicare’s annual enrollment period begins Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 7.
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Workspan Daily
10/29/2025
Dov Lutzker, an attorney and partner with the Epstein Becker Green law firm, noted that the ADA covers private employers with 15 or more employees, so many employers likely need to be proficient on diabetes from a wellness, cost-containment, and legal and regulatory compliance perspective.
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Workspan Daily
08/07/2025
For U.S. employers anticipating
lower budgets for 2026 compared to actuals for 2025, cited reasons include:
;Concern about future economic conditions or business performance (selected by 66% of respondents);
;Prior year increases were higher than usual (32%);
;Reduced competition for labor or labor supply surplus (12%);
;Change in compensation philosophy or competitive positioning (6%);
;Other reasons (15%);
For U.S. employers anticipating
higher budgets for 2026 compared to actuals for 2025, cited reasons include:
;Change in compensation philosophy or competitive positioning (35%);
;Improved economic conditions or improved business performance (34%);
;Increased competition for labor or labor supply shortage (34%);
;Prior year increases were lower than usual (32%);
;Other reasons (12%); “Pay increases have been tapering year over year as the surge in wage growth and inflation begins to level off, but inflation is starting to creep back up with economic uncertainty mounting and
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Workspan Magazine
02/01/2021
It turns out that it had been debunked 15 or 20 years ago, and I never knew that.
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Workspan Daily
01/06/2023
Richter says that for new plans, it expands automatic enrollment (at a minimum of 3%) and auto-escalation (1% annually until at least 10% but not greater than 15%).
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