29 October 2024
Daylight Savings Time ends November 3: When clocks are turned back an hour in the early morning on November 3rd workers on the midnight shift at that time will actually work an extra hour. Assuming that these workers are nonexempt employees, meaning that they are governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), they must be paid for all hours worked.
21 October 2024
Help employ military spouses: The U.S. Department of Defense launched the Military Spouse Career Accelerator Pilot, or MSCAP, program in 2023, where spouses are matched with participating companies, and DOD pays the salaries of the spouses during the 12 weeks. The hope is that companies will hire them full-time as a result of the fellowship, but there’s no guarantee.
15 October 2024
Fertility benefits becoming a must for employees: According to a recent survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 42% of U.S. employers polled offered fertility-related benefits in 2024, up from 30% in 2020.
8 October 2024
Workplace appreciation could be improved: With only half (49%) of employees feeling regularly appreciated for being themselves at work, there's a major opportunity for organizations to create a true culture of appreciation, according to a recent Reward Gateway report which polled 1,000 employees, managers, and executives in the U.S. Among employees who do not regularly feel appreciated at work, they would like their workplace to show appreciation for them as a person by offering...
1 October 2024
Do managers fake it? A new report from Workhuman was conducted among 3,000 full-time employees in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland. It discovered that 48% of managers felt that faking productivity is a common issue on their teams — but 67% of non-managers denied faking productivity at work.
24 September 2024
More people want to switch jobs: The July 2024 SCE Labor Market Survey revealed that the rate of employees transitioning to a new employer has reached its highest level since the survey began, with 7.1% of employed respondents moving to different jobs, up from 5.3% in July 2023. This increase in job switching is largely driven by women, according to the New York Fed. The proportion of job seekers has also surged, with 28.4% of respondents looking for a job in the past four weeks,...
17 September 2024
Next Going PRO Training Grant Application Period Opens October 1: Many of ASE’s members take advantage of the Going PRO Talent Fund each year. This is state grant money available to employers for employee training. In addition to skill-based training, this grant money can be used for some of ASE’s most popular supervisory and leadership courses.
10 September 2024
Resume gaps still problematic: Resume gaps may no longer carry the same stigma they once did, but they are not entirely free from negative impacts on hiring and compensation, according to research by Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and Oberlin College associate professor Eric Lin.
3 September 2024
Four-year degrees still worthwhile: The number of good jobs will grow substantially by 2031, and the majority of them will require at least a four-year degree, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce predicted in a new report.
27 August 2024
Is your Canadian operation ready for the Equal Pay Act requirements? On Aug. 31, 2021, following the enaction of the federal Pay Equity Act, federally regulated employers with 10 or more employees had three years to develop their pay equity plans. This time frame is now coming to an end.
20 August 2024
Paid time off a must have for workers: Paid time off and competitive pay have emerged as the top "must-haves" in workplaces across the world, according to employees and students. Kellanova's poll among 3,500 respondents from six countries revealed that at least three in five of them want paid time off (64%), as well as competitive pay (60%) to be offered by their employers.
13 August 2024
It’s VETS 4212 season for federal contractors: All federal contractors and subcontractors with a government contract in the amount of $150,000 or more are required to file the VETS-4212 report by the September 30 deadline. For more information, go to VETS-4212 Federal Contractor Reporting | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov).
6 August 2024
USCIS extends I-9 expiration date: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification to extend the expiration date to 05/31/2027. Employers must use Form I-9 with the edition date of 08/1/23, which may have an expiration date of either 07/31/2026 or 05/31/2027.
30 July 2024
Employers expected to enhance, not diminish, health benefits in 2025: Despite higher health care cost trends, the majority of employers will not cut health benefits in 2025, and many will make enhancements to their programs, although they may be doing so more selectively than in past years, according to recent research from Mercer.
23 July 2024
Are you monitoring your employees? The share of companies using some kind of electronic worker-surveillance system surged during the pandemic, reaching nearly 50% in 2023, according to a survey of nearly 300 medium to large employers by research and advisory firm Gartner.