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The tendency for women’s products — from deodorant to pens — to cost more simply because they’re made for or marketed to women has long been dubbed “ the pink tax .”

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 .

.; 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 .

A proposal from California Democrats to institute a statewide four-day workweek for hourly employees has been shelved, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report .

Kaiser Permanente, Unions Reach Deal on New Contracts Health system Kaiser Permanente has reached a tentative agreement with unions that will raise wages and increase investment in staffing, the Wall Street Journal reports .

“The report was pretty universally positive,” Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities, told the Wall Street Journal .

Wage Increases The headline of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal touted “Companies Plan Big Raises for Workers in 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 .

“We will aim to compile guidelines by June with regard to labor market reform, including reskilling workers and facilitating labor turnover,” Kishida told a panel tasked with implementing the plan, which will also focus on structural wage increases aimed at narrowing pay differentials between domestic firms and overseas rivals.

Putting a Focus on Cost Reduction According to Jake Spiegel, a research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), while the institute uses a slightly different data source than the CDC for calculating HDHP enrollment — the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) — its results are “directionally similar” to those from the CDC.