In almost every state, industries whose share of jobs is growing pay less than the industries whose share of jobs is shrinking, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
More than 40 percent of employers
are scaling back their 2004 pay-increase budgets for at least some portion of
their employee population, according to a new survey from Mercer Human Resource
Consulting.
Seventy-one percent of executives say that corporations have a responsibility
to promote health and wellness among their employees, but many of those companies
offer no health-education programs, according
to recent American Management Association (AMA) survey.
Total compensation costs for civilian workers rose 1.0 percent from June to September 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported yesterday.
Many more American workers with employer-provided health insurance are unhappy
with changes to their health insurance than are unhappy with changes to their
salary or retirement benefits, according to a new Harris Interactive poll conducted
for the Wall Street Journal.
Real average weekly earnings--wages adjusted to account for inflation--decreased by 0.3 percent from August to September after seasonal adjustment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Under a final rule about to be issued by the Bush administration, nursing homes
will be allowed to hire part-time workers to help feed patients--a task currently
restricted to licensed nurses, certified nurse's aides, and other healthcare
professionals.
A 0.1 percent increase
in average hourly earnings was offset by a 0.4 percent rise in the Consumer
Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Average weekly
hours were unchanged.
Average salary increases continued to fall this year, reaching their lowest
level in 27 years, according to a study by Hewitt Associates, a human-resources
outsourcing and consulting firm.
A person working full-time would need to earn $15.21 an hour, or $31,637 a
year, to afford a two-bedroom apartment and have money left over to pay for other
necessities, according to a new report.
