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UKG is Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Pay Equity Initiative
Employee Benefit News | HR and workforce management solutions company UKG hopes its Close the Gap Initiative can do something to change that. The tech company will be contributing $0.18 for each of the 15 million people who are paid using a UKG system, for a total of $3 million, to nonprofits, research and educational resources that work to bring awareness and change to pay inequity in America.
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Gain in Hours Worked Gauge May Signal Upside in U.S. Jobs Report
Bloomberg | Ultimate Kronos Group’s workforce activity, an index of hours worked and shift data from 3.8 million employees at 35,000 U.S. businesses, rose 1.4% month over month in November after gaining 0.1% in October. During this year’s economic recovery, increases in the UKG indicator in March, June and July have coincided with national job numbers that exceeded economists’ predictions for the corresponding month.
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How Companies are Helping Parents and Caregivers with ‘Work-Life Integration’
Boston Globe | During the pandemic — when 69 percent of working parents reported that helping their kids with remote learning negatively impacted their work performance, according to the employment website Indeed — Mahesh Ganesan needed to help his then-high-school senior with college applications. Ganesan, director of mergers and acquisitions integration at UKG, a Lowell technology company, worried that his son wasn’t receiving enough support remotely from his English teacher during a critical period at school.
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Some Former Restaurant Workers are Finding New Careers in Other Kitchens
Marketplace | “Health care and hospitality — there’s plenty of jobs available, but boy, they’re really tough jobs to do,” said Dave Gilbertson, who tracks the U.S. workforce at payroll-processor UKG, which is a Marketplace underwriter.
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Take it from an Expert: Listening is the Best Tool to have in Your DEI Arsenal
Employee Benefits News | The DEI acronym has grown to include the concept of belonging, and it seems employers and leaders have their work cut out for them. Brian Reaves, chief belonging, diversity and equity officer at UKG, says that to not be heard is to not be valued.
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Goods that Haven't Left China yet Won't Be Here in Time for the Holidays
Business Insider | A recent survey from UKG, a workforce-management group, found that about 85% of retailers expect supply-chain disruptions to affect customers.