July 7, 2022 - Smlr_net

7 Jul 2022


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
management*
*July 7, 2022*
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August 31st.*
*Title:*                    Most Employers Aren’t Expanding Benefits, In
Spite of Retention Woes
*Source:*               Human Resource Executive
*Author:*               Kathryn Mayer
*Date:*                   July 6, 2022
*Summary:*          Despite recruitment challenges, a rapidly changing
market and heightened employee expectations, the majority of employers
haven’t expanded benefits over the past year, new data finds.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3nKybgv
*Title:*                    Job Openings Eased, In a Sign of the Cooling
Labor Market
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Lydia DePillis
*Date:*                   July 6, 2022
*Summary:*          The number of open positions fell to 11.3 million, down
from an upwardly revised 11.6 million in April, the Labor Department said
Wednesday in the monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. That still
leaves nearly two jobs available for every unemployed person in the United
States.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/3NPF62r
*Title:*                   Biden in Ohio Spotlights Effort to Rescue Union
Pensions
*Source:*               Associated Press
*Author: *              Aamer Madhani and Josh Boak
*Date:*                   July 6, 2022
*Summary:*          Reassuring frustrated blue-collar voters, President Joe
Biden on Wednesday visited Ohio iron workers to highlight federal action to
shore up troubled pension funding for millions now on the job or retired —
and to make his political case that he’s been a champion for workers in the
White House.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3bS0I0W
*Title:*                    States Expand Bans on Nondisclosure Pacts
Beyond #MeToo Claims
*Source:*               Bloomberg
*Author:*               Chris Marr
*Date:*                   July 7, 2022
*Summary:*          Several states now impose a broader ban on
nondisclosure agreements covering all forms of workplace discrimination and
harassment—including California, which revised its law in 2021, and Maine,
where a new law is set to take effect Aug. 8.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3ami0mk
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