Tag Archives: Employment compensation

Gap Hourly Wage Rate Increased

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Gap, the owner of Banana Republic and Old Navy, has announced that it will increase its hourly wage rate to $9. And next year this will reach the $10 level. The head of the company explained this...

Tech Industry: Where Lay-offs is a Permanent Feature

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While much of the focus in the current news cycle seems to be on celebrity top executives and the minutia of selecting and deselecting them, there is an underlying trend receiving far less...

Higher Minimum Wages Means More Independent Contractors

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Did President Obama just make independent contractor v. employee issues bigger? Arguably, yes. His State of the Union Address noted that he would sign an executive order increasing the...

A Little More Context On That Fired Yahoo Exec’s Massive Golden Parachute

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As crazy as it sounds, severance packages worth more than $100 million — like the one Yahoo gave fired COO Henrique De Castro this week — occur with some regularity in corporate America, and have...
    






What 2013 Teaches Employers For 2014 & Beyond

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By Gene Connors and Amanda Haverstick 2013 left employees as the overall victors on the employment law battlefield, by arming them with a host of new statutory rights and options, primarily at the...
    






Minimum Wage Hike Increased by WCC

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It happens to be the highest rate in the entire US. But that is the way things are. Washington City Council took a decision that may have been abrupt yet it was necessary too. The raising of minimum...
    






Jobs With Justice: New Campaigns Take Aim At Low Wages, Working Poor, Falling Middle Class

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The organized labor movement is changing, reflecting two large-scale trends. On the one hand, union membership – once 35 percent of the U.S. workforce in the 1950s – is at its lowest point in more...
    






Paul Krugman’s Excellent Point About Uber’s Surge Pricing

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Paul Krugman is using Uber’s surge pricing as an example, as something to bolster a core part of the Keynesian economic model. But that’s fine for he’s doing it really rather well. The basic point is...