Pizza Does Not Motivate Employees More Than Cash
When you have a negative attitude toward workers saying they need a living wage, you kind of show the real motivation behind the pizza party.
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Disney is using ‘tax cut bonus’ to try to force union workers to accept low pay
Disney got some positive press for saying it would give its workers a $1,000 tax cut bonus—but it’s using the bonus to try to force some of its lower-paid workers to accept a bad deal at the bargaining table. The entertainment giant carefully specified that the bonuses would go to union workers “currently working under existing union …
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Union to Southwest: $1,000 worker bonuses don’t make up for years of stagnant pay
Southwest Airlines this week announced that it would be awarding its employees with a $1,000 bonus following the passage of the GOP tax bill, which the company’s board of directors said would “result in meaningful corporate income tax reform.” Union leaders say it hardly makes up for years of unfair treatment. “We applaud Congress and …
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Turning the Other Cheek: Illegal Retaliation in the Workplace
Turning the Other Cheek: Illegal Retaliation in the Workplace If someone went to your employer and said you were discriminating against them, wouldn’t you hold a grudge? Wouldn’t you want to get them fired, and if you couldn’t do that, at least make their lives more difficult? Of course you would (and if you honestly …
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Outsourced: No Laughing Matter
Last week, NBC launched a new show that tries to find comedy in the all-too-real conditions of outsourcing. While the first episode was witty—making light of age-old cultural clashes and stereotypes, there is nothing funny about the reality of outsourcing and the impact it has both on the American worker and their counterparts around the world. For …
Rule of Law Makes a Comeback
Remember when President Reagan was shot and Al Haig famously burst into the White House and said that he was in charge? Okay, it might not have been as over the top as Howard Dean’s scream, but Haig did become the poster boy for an “Era of Executive Testosterone Overload.” An era that seems to …
Three Concepts That Need to Be ‘Laid Off’
It’s time to review three ideas that need to be “let go” in 2009. 1. Credit Checks of Job Applicants. According to the Society of Human Resource Management and Kroll, 43% of employers run credit checks on potential employees, up from 36% in 2004. These checks involve rent, student loans, credit cards and mortgages and …
The CEO Patriot Pledge: Just Say ‘No’ to More Layoffs
CEO PATRIOT PLEDGE: As an executive my primary motivation is to act for the good of my company, not just my own financial gain. No one at our company will earn a guaranteed base salary more than 40 times of our lowest paid worker and we will offer the same health care and 401(K) matches …
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