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Asking Your Interviewee’s Salary History will soon be Prohibited in California

Interviews - June 12, 2017

If there is something equal to the consequences of asking a woman’s weight is asking someone’s salary history. There are many people out there who do not want to shar...

Uber Begins Housecleaning with Firing of 20 Employees

Featured - June 07, 2017

Uber Technologies Inc has fired 20 employees, including some senior executives, following a probe by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other workplace mis...

Walmart is Accused of Punishing Employees for Sick Days

Featured - June 03, 2017

Walmart and labor unions go together like oil and ice. In terms of labor regulations, the nation’s largest private employer is basically the Tiger Woods of retail chai...

Walmart is Transforming Employee Training with Virtual Reality

Walmart has made headlines in this past year for all the wrong reasons. All too often, these headlines revolve around the widespread mistreatment of workers. More than tw...

Apple’s Jony Ive To Develop Future Talent and Launching New iPad Air with A14 Bionic Chipset

Featured - May 31, 2017

According to a recent announcement, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, Sir Jony Ive has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. The a...

New York City Uber Drivers to Get their Refunds after Uber Admits Mis-calculations

Compensation - May 24, 2017

Uber being drown in a pool of negative controversies is not something that journalists have done out of choice. It is the things that the company does or revelations that...

Automation Technology Will Put 6 To 7.5 Million Jobs In Peril

Featured - May 21, 2017

Technological unemployment is already affecting the prodigious sectors that contribute majorly to the economy. By now, we know that automation can lead to temporary and p...

Ex-employee Sues UploadVR for Rampant Sexual Practices

Featured - May 17, 2017

A San Francisco based virtual reality start-up UploadVR is being sued by a former director of Digital and Social Media who alleges that the start-up is practicing sexual ...

It Has Been A Very Strange Year At Uber

Featured - May 07, 2017

Companies today are going by the ‘bleed now, make money later’ business model like Amazon.com did in the 00’s. What’s shocking is that some of these companies hav...

California Wage Orders Revised – Reflect an Increase in the Minimum Wage

Compensation - May 05, 2017

To reflect the increases in the 2017 and 2018 state minimum wage, the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) recently updated many Wage Orders. These updated...

Infosys Local Hiring Move – Plans to Hire 10,000 American Workers

Featured - May 02, 2017

N. R. Narayana Murthy’s Infosys is planning to hire around 10,000 workers in the U.S. Infosys local hiring move comes following the criticism from the Trump administrat...

A New Study Shows Londoners Work 100 Hours More Than Rest Of U.K’s Workforce

Featured - April 18, 2017

A new research released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that Londoners work 100 hours more than the rest of the U.K workers, on an average. The research ...

India is beating US at Paid Maternity Leave

Featured - April 11, 2017

In India, less than 30% of women work and the deficit costs the country an estimated 2.5 percentage points of gross domestic product per year. Last year, the Upper House ...

LiveSmart: A Simple, Paperless Employee Health Platform for Lifestyle and Health Management

In 2002, PepsiCo introduced two initiatives for their employees under the Healthy Living wellness initiatives. One program was focused on overall lifestyle and health man...

Google Claims No Gender Pay Discrimination Amidst Charges Of Extreme Pay Disparities

Compensation - April 08, 2017

Just in January, Google Inc. faced a blow from the U.S Department of Labor after it denied sharing its employment data to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Progra...

Mental Disorders Affect 1 in 8 Working Americans. On this World Health Day Encourage Better Employee Health

About two months ago, Harvey Reed knew things had changed when he realized he was almost entirely alone at work. He worked in a large organization, surrounded by clever, ...