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☆ Hospitals rely on volunteers for $5 billion a year of free work — and some could be violating federal labor laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Lauren Sausser | Kaiser Health News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The US health system benefits from potentially over $5 billion in free volunteer labor annually. Like paid employees, hospital volunteers typically face mandatory vaccine requirements, background checks, and patient privacy training. Hedges was furloughed for the better part of six months when hospital volunteers were sent home in March 2020. Nonprofit and for-profit hospitals alike benefit from volunteersNonprofit hospitals must follow federal labor laws, too. Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide a benefit to their communities, such as offering charity care, in exchange for their special tax status.

☆ Microsoft recognized its first labor union in the US after staff at $7.5 billion video game firm ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft recognized its first US labor union, the Communications Workers of America said, Tuesday. Around 300 workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize in December. Microsoft agreed to voluntarily recognize the union if workers voted to unionize in December, per Reuters. Union workers can petition to the National Labor Relations Board to force their employer to recognize their union, but the process is long and arduous. Microsoft and ZeniMax Studios did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ All the U.S. states, cities and counties where companies have to share salary ranges with workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Current employees are entitled to the salary range of their position, upon request. An employer must provide the employee the salary range when they are hired, if they change to a new position, or if the employee requests it. Who it applies to: Maryland employersNevadaThe law: Employers must provide the salary range to applicants after an initial interview automatically, even if the applicant hasn't asked for it. Plus, they have to provide a salary range for a current employee's position at their request. Who it applies to: Rhode Island employersToledo, OhioThe law: Employers must share the salary range for a position after they extend an offer and if the applicant asks for it .

☆ How managers can help make their workers happier in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This matters for companies, in part because more engaged workers are linked to things businesses want — things like productivity and profitability. Employees who feel supported by their bosses are also more likely to feel happier and less likely to have chronic health conditions. The takeaway for managers is clear: Connect each employee's work to the company's larger purpose. Empathy also plays a big role in making workers feel more engaged at work. Business-leadership researchers at McKinsey & Co. said in a 2021 report that more managers needed to prioritize mental health.

☆ Here are all the new salary transparency laws going into effect in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The salary transparency movement is well underway: In 2021, Colorado paved the way for new laws requiring businesses to list salary ranges on job ads, and New York City rolled out its own pay range law in November 2022. A handful of other states and cities say employers must share the salary range for a job during the hiring process. The move makes California the largest state where job listings will require salary information by law. Plus, they'll have to provide a salary range for a current employee's position at their request. Other pay range laws that could come in 2023 and beyond

☆ Southwest asks HQ employees to ditch normal jobs to pitch in to get flights back on track, leaked memo says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Southwest Airlines is battling an operational meltdown, canceling over 9,000 flights since Sunday. The carrier asked corporate employees to volunteer to work eight-hour shifts to help with crew scheduling. The shifts would be in lieu of normal day-to-day work duties, according to an internal memo. The shift would be worked instead of each employee's normal day-to-day duties and the memo does not mention incentives like extra pay. Captain Mike Santoro, vice president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, told Insider on Tuesday that the airline's scheduling software is "outdated" and needs an upgrade.

☆ Some Southwest ground workers developed frostbite and worked 16-hour shifts amid the airline's holiday meltdown, union says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Hannah Towey | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights this week amid extreme winter weather. Many ground workers were forced to work 16-18 hours shifts during the chaos, their union said. Some developed frostbite after working outside in the frigid temperatures, per the union's president. Southwest canceled thousands of flights in the wake of a deadly winter storm that hit the US during peak holiday travel. Do you work for Southwest Airlines?

☆ Netflix is still hiring for hundreds of roles across its games studio, engineering teams, and more. Salary data shows how much the company has offered for 180 different jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Netflix offered base salaries between $40 an hour and $800,000 a year for certain roles, data shows. The company doesn't disclose salary data, but, like other US firms, it discloses how much it plans to pay workers it hires on US visas. Many of the roles offered six-figure base salaries. Netflix may choose to pay employees more than the figures reflected in this data or compensate them in additional ways. Based on the data, Netflix offered annual base salaries ranging from $40.45 per hour to $800,000, with a median of $184,080, for various roles.

New legislation working its way through Congress could improve retirement security for U.S. workers. The plan is part of a stopgap spending bill, and it includes a provision that would automatically enroll eligible employees into their company's retirement plan. Under the new legislation, employers could consider a worker's student loan payment to be the equivalent of a 401(k) contribution and match it accordingly. Finally, the legislation offers a 100% tax credit to businesses with 50 employees or fewer for the cost of maintaining a 401(k) plan. "It’s a bill that helps all income levels and all different types of workers and retirees," Richman, of the Insured Retirement Institute, said.

☆ Behind a Wall Street headhunter's rapid ascent lie accusations of harassment and abuse
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

"It was a complete whirlwind, and it felt too good to be true," Morrison told Insider. "Everyone is given a calendar reminder of when they have to submit a review," one former employee told Insider. Durlston told Insider she wasn't a credible source given the acrimonious nature of her departure from Durlston. "Everyone gets pretty loose at these events," a former employee told Insider, noting the availability of alcohol throughout the day. Bahram told Insider this was not a prohibition but merely a suggestion that it would not be an appropriate arrangement.

☆ Long Covid patients can face a battle trying to claim benefits through their workplace disability insurance
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Sarah O'Brien | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Many workers get disability coverage via an employerAn estimated 43% of private industry workers have access to short-term disability insurance through their employer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Long-term disability insurance, which is intended to kick in when necessary after short-term disability benefits run out, is available to 35% of workers. After 10 weeks of struggling, he filed another short-term disability claim when it was clear he was not improving. Toward the end of 2021, with five doctors agreeing that his condition was disabling, he again filed a long-term disability claim. In fact, cases involving denial of long-term disability benefits for long Covid are cropping up around the country.

☆ An SEO consultant transformed her hiring process to attract better talent and improve retention with a few tips from an HR pro
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Erica Sweeney | In Partnership With | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

When Zhe Scott founded her SEO consulting and marketing firm, The SEO Queen, in 2017, she expected her employees to stick around long-term. Their conversations led Scott to "think about talent acquisition the same way I think about customer acquisition," she said. He and Scott shared how they overhauled Scott's hiring process and came up with solutions to improve talent retention. Scott is continuing to work on finding her next great employee using the ideas she and Coleman came up with. Treating talent acquisition as an ongoing taskWhile she hasn't found any new employees yet using updated new process, Scott said, she's confident about the long term.

☆ Delivering bad news to your coworkers is never easy. College classes and executive coaches are trying to teach how to do it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He hoped to learn how to better manage business success, business failure, and his mental health. He added: "Because a lot of those are what contributes to the difficulty in mental health for founders." "As a founder, balancing mental health and the success of the company almost seem opposite," Yan said. "Small triggers may affect your mental health," like when cofounders are angry at one another or when the staff is underperforming, he said. "When you don't deal directly with problematic employees, you're sending the clear message to others that their work doesn't matter," she said.

☆ A 1930s eugenics experiment is the reason women's clothing sizes are so damn frustrating
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A 1930s eugenics experiment is the reason women's clothing sizes are inconsistent, as per Radke. In an email to Insider, Radke said the discovery about women's clothing sizes was one of the biggest surprises to her when researching "Butts, a Backstory." Andrew SemansThe life-sized plaster casts made by Dickinson and Belskie were dubbed Normman and Norma and helped create standardized clothing sizes. During the 1950s, standardized clothing sizes were adopted by clothing brands. "It's just too expensive for garment manufacturers to make enough clothing sizes to accommodate the wide variation of human bodies.

☆ Hiring freezes and layoffs are happening everywhere. Here's what you should do next if your company hits pause on hires.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Several tech companies have introduced hiring freezes and layoffs to brace for a potential economic slowdown. "It's like almost every second day you're hearing about a new company or big tech company announcing hiring freezes," Nikita Gupta, founder of resume review company FAANGPath, told Insider. Although these pauses are primarily a problem for job seekers, hiring freezes can also cause employees to worry about job security. Some roles are also less likely to be affected by hiring freezes. Find out what your company is prioritizingCompanies that implement hiring freezes will be looking at their business costs.

☆ 'They are untouchable': Microsoft employees say 'golden boy' executives are still running wild, 8 years after the company vowed to clean up its toxic culture
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

The Microsoft executive walked into the small, windowless room in Studio C at about 8 o'clock that evening. Despite Nadella's public stance against those he has called "talented jerks," many inside the company say Microsoft retains a nearly unlimited tolerance for bad behavior by its top rainmakers and developers. "The Microsoft of 2021 is very different from the Microsoft of 2000 to me and to everyone at Microsoft," Nadella said. But some women say the investigations drag on for months or even years, with no clear timeline for resolution. What's more, some employees say Microsoft's efforts to promote racial equity often smack of tokenism.

☆ For small-business owners, poor performers can be a drag on the bottom line. Here's how to help them improve.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

InsiderPeople management is challenging for small-business owners, even when workers are productive. This article is part of Talent Insider, a series containing expert advice to help small business owners tackle a range of hiring challenges. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyPeople management is a perpetual challenge for small-business owners. Insider spoke with small-business owners and experts who offered advice on how to work with subpar employees to improve their performance. Nyberg said small-business owners often neglect to do this because they're stretched thin.

There are hints that the worst of the U.S.'s bout with inflation may be in the past. The consumer price index, a widely watched inflation gauge, came in at 7.7% in October when compared with a year earlier. Inflation can be very hard to predict," Kevin Kliesen, business economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, told CNBC in an interview. However, any potential downturn is expected to be mild, The Conference Board CEO Steve Odland told CNBC. This could be a much less painful experience with the Fed trying to tame inflation than it has been in the past," Odland said.

☆ Here's when Wall Street thinks inflation could finally end
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Noah Higgins-Dunn | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

There are hints that the worst of the U.S.'s bout with inflation may be in the past. The consumer price index, a widely watched inflation gauge, came in at 7.7% in October when compared with a year earlier. While that was still well above the Federal Reserves' 2% target, it did clock in below Wall Street's expectations. However, any potential downturn is expected to be mild, The Conference Board CEO Steve Odland told CNBC. This could be a much less painful experience with the Fed trying to tame inflation than it has been in the past."

☆ How to make your company an 'employer of choice,' according to a millionaire cofounder of TransPerfect
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

One of her goals was to make her company an employer of choice in the industry. Her goal was to make "our company an employer of choice in our industry and ideally in any industry," she told Insider. Elting cofounded the global translation company TransPerfect in 1992 while earning her MBA at New York University. For Elting, company culture and incentives were critical for retaining its 5,000 employees. Incentivize high performanceWhen Elting was leading TransPerfect, the company had a large sales team and paid staff commissions and incentives when they hit their goals.

☆ Elon Musk sent a midnight email telling Twitter staff to commit to an 'extremely hardcore' work schedule — or get laid off with 3 months' severance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk sent an ultimatum to all Twitter staff in a midnight email, per The Washington Post. Staff have been given 40 hours to agree to "extremely hardcore" work, or be laid-off. He earlier told Twitter employees to expect 80-hour work weeks and fewer office perks, like free lunches. Musk later posted a picture of himself meeting with "Ligma and Johnson," a pair of pranksters who impersonated laid-off Twitter employees last month and successfully tricked some news outlets. Twitter laid off around 50% of its 7,500 staff on November 4, shortly after Musk completed his takeover.

☆ Trump Org is battling prosecutors over 3 little words that could swing the New York tax-fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's not enough, they'll be told, for Trump Org executives to get caught selfishly stuffing their pockets. Prosecutors, meanwhile, find the three words so worrisome, they asked the judge — unsuccessfully — to strike them from the case entirely. In defense of their love or hate of the three words, the sides have cited a gamut of arcane case law and other source material. Holtzman — who, as a US Congresswoman, voted to impeach Richard Nixon — is the author of "The Case For Impeaching Trump." Much of the case law being cited, the judge said, was not quite on point, including the bilge and thermometer decisions.

☆ A foundry worker on his 9th day in the job fell into a vat of molten iron and was 'immediately incinerated'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A foundry worker in Mapleton, Illinois, died in June after falling into a vat of molten iron. Federal investigators say inadequate safety protections may be to blame for the worker's death. They proposed a fine of $145,027 for foundry operator Caterpillar. The worker was "immediately incinerated" in the incident, which occurred in June, per the Department of Labor. Federal investigators say that inadequate safety protections may have contributed to the worker's death and propose to fine the foundry operator Caterpillar of $145,027.

☆ If you're thinking about sharing your layoff story on LinkedIn, here's how to do it smartly
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A career coach and two former Meta employees explain how to move forward after layoffs. Subsequently, employees from these firms are posting their layoff stories, send-offs, and gratitude on social platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter. McGoff shared the best way to go about saying farewell after a layoff and how to move forward professionally. Strengthen connections before you leaveTaking a moment to process the news of a layoff should be an employee's first step, McGoff said. "Plant seeds now, tell everyone you know you're looking because opportunities can pop up at any time," Woodall said.

☆ 'I had a really like sickening feeling': A woman said she complained about how she was treated by Air Canada then the airline penalized her mom who works for the airline
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Air Canada revoked an employee's flying privileges after her daughter complained about a flight. "I had a really like sickening feeling when my mother told me what they did to her," the woman said. Standby tickets allow airline employees to fly anywhere for a fraction of the normal cost and are one attraction of working for a long-established carrier such as Air Canada. The woman told Insider that standby privileges were the main reason her mother, who is close to retirement, took the job. In a statement to Insider, Air Canada said: "We deal with our employees directly on internal matters.

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