An answer to this question in the words of Apple’s founder Steve Jobs was, “Privacy means people know what they're signing up for, in plain English and repeatedly.” This was back in 2010, in a conference which even had Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the audience. The resurfaced video has got people talking about the ethics, a Worldwide brand ought to adhere to.
Over a decade’s worth of effort and resilience has made the Gazillion-Dollar coffee company reach the point, where men and women are paid equally. Given the persistence of the company’s human capital management, the case had always been about When and not If. Its Executive-VP Lucy Helm stated, that future interviewees can expect further transparencies in regards to their pay-structure.
Also referred to as Dewan Rakyat, has been approved following a debate in the Parliament. The bill ensures a temporary financial assistance to those workers who have apparently lost their jobs. The help would allow people to re-train themselves, in order to become work-ready again. The premise of the bill would also include professionals falling in the bracket of 40-50 years.
The suit, whose discriminatory grounds are cornering the tech-giant, was filed in 2015 and states unequivocally the biased practices. As per the claims, women were denied promotions and pay-hikes “systematically”. Recently made public court filings reveal, of the 118 discrimination-claims reported to Microsoft, the company deemed only one justifie
The parliament shall be voting in motion to amend the threshold that caps Employee Act privileges at S$4,500. Once through, the amendment shall see 430,000 professionals come under the umbrella of the country’s Employment Act. Though the plans are in place to introduce the voting later this year, it wouldn’t be until April 2019, that the change is effective.
Nope, that wasn’t a job advertisement but the way, Wan Long, CEO of WH Group $291 million last year. His KRAs – turning a state-owned, meat processing business into a Global Pork Brand. The company chair has made it his habit of turning meat into gold. For the record, Wan earned three-quarters of a billion in compensa
The debate is set to take place in the House of Lords to decide whether unpaid work, those such as internships, be restricted to a period of 4 weeks. For quite some time now, it has been an intensely felt topic amongst the people starting their careers, who are now speaking their mind out at #payinterns.
Current Chief Executive Ronald den Elzen will make space for Maggie, who takes office from September 1. Maggie joined Heineken in 1998 as a national sales planner, and since then continued her upwards path in the company hierarchy in various strategic roles. Ronald will move his towards Heineken Netherlands, where he’d be needed for a glob
The poll that was released on women’s day found, almost 1 in 4 men thought of sex-for-promotion as a reasonable trade-off. The survey population covered 9,400 adults working in countries like Australia, United States, Egypt, South Africa and many more. Among other findings, 32% women & 21% men they had been victims of sexual misconduct at the workplace.&
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has named Facebook in a lawsuit for allowing discriminatory ads to run on its platform. The lawsuit alleges that the website is in direct violation of the Fair Housing Act. This component of the law safeguards people from being discriminated against in regards to finances in housing. Back in 2016, Facebook faced similar allegations, when it pledged to overhaul its systems.
Jorge Ferro, the ex-Tesla employee has filed a lawsuit against the car making giant, alleging retaliatory practices against LGBT people. Ferro, who is gay, claims he was repeatedly transferred from one function to another, until being permanently fired. Tesla in return has defended itself claiming its employee policies are amongst the best in the world.
This work-ethic was adopted by Marissa Meyer, back in the day when she used to run the show at Yahoo. In an interview with the New York Times, Marissa opened up about this practice which she learned working as a Google employee, earlier in her career. She further elaborated that salaries should be an incentivizing factor, but not the driving force behind workplace motivation.
In the words of John Thomson, chief investment officer of Vilas Capital Management, the answer shall be “Tesla without any doubt, is on the verge of bankruptcy.” While the investors who just promised new influx into the car manufacturer’s veins may beg to differ, as per the former, the company has 3-6 months to pull the plug on its operations.
It did, as per ex-employee Loretta Lee who has officially filed a lawsuit against Google on the same grounds. Lee, who was fired in 2016 for ‘poor-performance’, accredits the tag to her refusal to budge. She could draw inspiration from the fact that she’s not alone, however. Just last month, Tim Chevalier, another ex-employee, filed a case alleging the company of wrongful termination, discrimination & harassment.
Amidst all the speculations & headlines surrounding the cryptocurrency sphere, we tend to forget the very medium that facilitates their buying and selling. The exchanges. Following a slew of currency launches and their sky-rocketing publicity, Coinbase, Kraken & Circle are gearing to double their numbers. New roles shall contribute in averting system outages, a cause that left many exchanges with the blushes in 2017.
China, which has in the past gone beyond rhetoric while punishing Japanese & South Korean companies, faces a tougher challenge with the USA. In the ongoing sledging between Beijing & Washington D.C, are sandwiched those who thank the American MNC’s for their bread-n-butter. Should there be a trade war, it’d be interesting to see the tolerance level of the People’s Republic, who might incur a greater casualty count. (“eventually” would not go with “might”).
An upward Y-o-Y, no wonder Google’s parent company recorded an annual revenue, greater than the size of a few small economies. On top of adding a talent force of 5,000, the tech-giant boasted a revenue of $31.1 Billion within the first quarter. Alphabet now stands strong at 85,050 employees & if the signs are anything to go by, ‘tis just getting started.
While the Indian hospitality giant has been pioneering its way in the industry since 1903, it now plans to up the benchmarks in employee equality. With policies like paid-maternity-leaves and crèche facilities hitting the right note among women, the hotel will now begin to reimburse fertility expenses. Taj’s parent company, IHCL, is also planning to introduce unbiased programs for meritocracy to prevail at the workpl
James Long, who was videoed dragging a passenger in the airplane aisle and fired, after the fact, has now moved to the courts. The lawsuit names United Airlines, the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) and its commissioner Ginger Evans. Long, will be taking the stand on the lines, that if he had been trained for such a drastic situation beforehand, the outcome would’ve been otherwise.
Players like Starbucks, Intel, Adobe & Salesforce, to name a few, have outdone others in terms of implementing pay parity for all. Recent numbers suggested that women, in the land of opportunities, earned $0.80 against a $1 for male counterparts. On the occasion of Equal Pay Day, leaders have their tasks cut out to introspect on bringing women & racial minorities at par with the rest.
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