OSHA to Retailers: Make Black Friday Safer for Workers
Is a $20 Black Friday bargain worth trampling a worker who earns $9 an hour? In 2008, at a Long Island Wal-Mart, over 2,000 people trampled into the store five minutes be...
LinkedIn is Snapchat now, kinda
On Tuesday, the world’s most popular business and employment-oriented platform borrowed a major feature from teenagers’ favorite social network. LinkedIn launched a n...
Japan Changes Immigration Policy to Accept Blue Collar Workers
More than 345,000 blue-collar foreign workers are expected to join Japan’s workforce within a five-year period under a new working visa system starting fiscal 2019. The...
Amazon’s $15 minimum wage to benefit its 350,000 warehouse workers
October 2, 2018 will be marked as a milestone day in the history of the American retail industry. The trillion-dollar company, Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 per h...
US New Deportation Policy Pile Pressure on Workers With Expired H-1B Visas
Non-immigrant tech workers and their employers are yet on another heat as US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) last week announced it will start implementing i...
LinkedIn Talent Insights to provide competitive intelligence for workforce planning
Professional network LinkedIn has launched Talent Insights, a data-driven analytics tool for talent. The tool offers users two reports – Talent Pool and Company – to ...
Facebook exec hits back at WhatsApp co-founder: What leaders could learn
Facebook VP of Messaging Products, David Marcus is defending the conglomerate and talks about rating (class) in the company after Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder spoke o...
HR News: ACLU Claims Gender-targeted Facebook Advertising Excludes Women from Well-paid, Blue-collar Jobs
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that Facebook and 10 of its advertisers ...
Why Your Office Party Ideas Are Missing The Mark (And How You Can Fix It)
Do you need fun office party ideas to turn your regular office gathering into a fun-filled team-building project? Well, the following office party themes will take you ev...
Indian Tech Employees Lose Sleep As U.S Decides on H-1B Visa
Most Indian tech employees were waiting on September 10 for a new fate on their quest for H-1B Visa, a United State non-immigrant Visa which allows foreign workers to wor...
Virgin Calculated the Value of a Bad Candidate Experience, And the Results are Astounding!
Every company desires to retain and attract more customers. And all efforts must be in place to block all channels of losing one. Surprisingly, a recent study found that ...
Microsoft Will Require Vendors to Offer Paid Parental Leave
Microsoft will begin requiring its vendors and contractors to offer their U.S. employees paid parental leave if they want to work with the tech giant. In a new policy ann...
San Francisco’s Minimum Wage Increase Effective July 1
Starting July 1, employees working in the hilly city of San Francisco must be paid $15 an hour. San Francisco’s new Consideration of Salary History ordinance will go in...
Apple Employees Get Standing Desk: Tim Cook Says ‘Sitting is The New Cancer.’
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently disclosed a new detail about Apple work environment: the introduction of standing desk for all Apple employees. “Everyone gets a standin...
Walmart Offers Its US Employees Tuition Benefit
The world’s second-largest employer and largest retailer Walmart has introduced a new tuition benefit for its employees and eligible family members in the US. Intro...
CEO of World’s Largest Luggage Maker Resigns After Resume Scandal
On Friday, world’s largest luggage maker Samsonite announced its CEO stepped down following allegations that he lied on his resume. A research report issued by U.S.-bas...
