The Department of Labor has kept busy, this time releasing a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report summaries data from the National Compensation Survey that show the rate of health care coverage through employment insurance, as well as other fringe benefits. The high points should come as no surprise: government and highly paid...
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More Unemployment Benefit Relief for Maryland
The federal government announced today that it was sending more relief to the states, in the form of supplements to their unemployment services.
Maryland will receive $1,019,462 to begin a Re-employment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) Initiative. The funding will pay for counseling, assessment, and crafting individual work-search plans for unemployed people whose industries may have dwindled or...
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New Bill Proposes Higher Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees
Speaking of the new minimum wage, which I did a few days ago, there are many exceptions to the requirement to pay minimum wage. One has received some attention lately, the tipped employee or waiter minimum wage, which has been stuck at $2.13 per hour since 1991. When I was in college in the 1970s,...
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Severance agreements
Have you been offered a severance agreement? Well, congratulations for getting something out of a bad situation, and condolences on the bad situation. What does it all mean?
Severance is offered by some companies as a matter of policy; in many of those cases the severance policy is made according to a written plan with specific...
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