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The FTC noncompete ruling will narrow the gender gap in entrepreneurship

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Monday’s FTC announcement to implement a nationwide, retroactive ban on the enforcement of employee noncompete agreements promises to improve wages, career prospects, and innovation. Given that a legal challenge has already been filed in objection to the agency’s authority to do so, it is important to understand additional—if underappreciated—improvements that would arise should the ruling […]

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'Second Chance Month' is a failed promise for former inmates. Here's how we can fix that

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Since 2017, April is observed as Second Chance Month in the United States. This year is no different. President Biden released his proclamation on March 29 and announced, “During Second Chance Month, we recommit to building a criminal justice system that lives up to those ideals so that people returning to their communities from jail or prison

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My mental health hit a low point due to a difficult pregnancy. Every employer should offer the kind of benefits package that pulled me through

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Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, mental health coverage is a “guarantee.” But in reality, a recent study showed that 80% of people surveyed with employer sponsored health plans said they went out of network to receive mental health care, with a main reason being an inadequacy of coverage. But at what cost? My journey

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Return to office (romance): The real reason Gen Z and millennials are ditching dating apps

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Dani Coco would never, ever date a coworker. Not again. In her second post-college job as a talent manager in 2019, Coco began dating a coworker in the same position as her. The company had a relatively lax policy regarding office romances, but her coworker was adamant that no one else could know. Six months

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This Gen Zer applied to 1,700 jobs but only received one offer—and he says hiring managers didn't contact him until he cussed them out on TikTok

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Hunter Howell, 22 years old and freshly graduated with a degree in business administration from Elmhurst University in the Chicago suburbs, has submitted over 1,700 job applications. But in his 10 months of job hunting, he’s gotten only one offer. “The initial feeling was like, What the hell is going on? What the hell is

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Stellantis uses ‘mandatory remote work day’ to cut 400 white-collar jobs

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White-collar workers at Chrysler-parent Stellantis have reason to be nervous if they ever get a company notice telling them it’s mandatory that they work remotely on a particular day. That’s what happened to 400 or so of their colleagues on Thursday. They were informed via a notice that the next day the carmaker would be

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Amazon sharply upped 'performance improvement plans' for workers. Then came tens of thousands of layoffs

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In the months before Amazon laid off tens of thousands of workers, it also put a large number of employees on performance improvement plans, known as PIPs, according to a new report.  The details were uncovered in a set of documents from Amazon’s HR department obtained by Business Insider. According to documents from early 2023,

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