IBM Stops Tracking Vacation
September 05, 2007—While IBM offers three or more weeks of vacation to each of its 355,000 employees per year, the company has no idea how much of that vacation time employees use because IBM no longer tracks it, the New York Times reports.
50 States Ranked by Income
September 04, 2007—New Jersey, Maryland, and Hawaii have the highest median household income in the the United States, according to a report by the Census Bureau.
Test Your Payroll I.Q.
September 04, 2007—CheckPoint HR, LLC, and Business & Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR), have created a "Test Your Payroll I.Q." quiz in celebration of National Payroll Week, which takes place September 3-7, 2007.
Judge Orders Cleaning Business to Pay More than $4.5M to Workers
August 30, 2007—A federal judge has ordered Southern California Maid Services and Carpet Cleaning to pay $3,467,789 in back wages and $1,058,973 in damages to 385 current and former low-wage workers.
2.2 Million More Americans Have No Health Insurance
August 29, 2007—The number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 44.8 million (15.3 percent) in 2005 to 47 million (15.8 percent) in 2006, according to a report by the Census Bureau.
Top Compensation Stories in Last 90 Days
August 28, 2007—The following news articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the last 90 days. The articles are available to both subscribers and non-subscribers.
Who Has Labor Day Off?
August 27, 2007—A vast majority of employers give their employees a paid holiday in observance of Labor Day, according to BLR's 2007 Survey of Employee Benefits.
Hispanic Workers See Wage Gains
August 24, 2007—Foreign-born Hispanics saw notable progress in terms of wages from 1995 to 2005, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Perception Is Everything When It Comes to Pay Satisfaction
August 23, 2007—Where employees place themselves on the "ladder of social prestige" has a lot to do with their personal satisfaction with their jobs--and their compensation--finds a recent study reported in the September 2007 issue of Prevention magazine.
Most Americans Earned Less in 2005 Than They Did in 2000
August 21, 2007—The average income slipped from $55,714 in 2000 to $55,238 in 2005, after adjustment for inflation, according to analysis of IRS data by the New York Times.
