In a recent California court case, a female employee was hired at 5% over her last salary with a prior employer, a starting wage policy the new employer followed for everyone. A while later the employee found that male workers doing similar work were paid more, likely...
In a recent presentation by an economist from the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, I learned their carefully studied view of the economy over the next couple years, particularly as it impacts your ability to hire and keep good workers. The news was not great for...
For employers who don’t regularly check on updates to California’s ever-changing labor law landscape, here are some areas where recent changes to the law may affect your hiring/management practices: 1. ICE job site inspection constraints – AB450 2....
Sounds like a no-brainer question, right? You’re the CEO, you run the company, you should choose your financial right arm. And mostly that’s what happens. But there is a trend afoot because of the increasing importance of the CFO’s input to strategic initiatives, a...
Macroeconomic Advisors reported this morning that the US economy added 110,000 private sector jobs last month, a bit more than predicted. More importantly, they all came from small and mid-sized businesses. All of them. Some things don’t change, and one of them...
