Salary Transparency: How I Broke the Last Taboo
From today’s Business Insider: For a few weeks last fall, I was consumed by a strange habit that had me spending a lot of time on LinkedIn, of all apps.…
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Lawmaker in Congressional hearing on bank CEOs’ pay: “It doesn’t look good”
From today’s CBS News Online: Making their first appearance before Congress since the financial crisis a decade ago, the CEOs of America’s biggest banks told lawmakers their financial institutions are…
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The stock market boom has given CEOs a raise. What about average workers?
From today’s PBS News Hour: Over the past few years, many economic indicators have returned to where they were before the Great Recession — among them, the unemployment rate, which has…
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‘Eye-popping’ payouts for CEOs follow Trump’s tax cuts, while wages stagnate
From today’s Politico “Finance and Tax” Series: Some of the biggest winners from President Donald Trump’s new tax law are corporate executives who have reaped gains as their companies buy back a…
Opinion: Treating Workers Fairly at Rent the Runway
From today’s New York Times: I am ashamed to say that until recently I was part of the majority: I am the chief executive of a company that gave different benefits…
Outrage Over Wall Street Pay, but Shrugs for Silicon Valley?
From the New York Times Blog “DealBook” by Steven Davidoff: Big paydays on Wall Street often come under laserlike scrutiny, while Silicon Valley gets a pass on its own compensation excesses. Why the…
Tech start-up publishes employee salaries, encourages transparency
San Francisco tech start-up Buffer has been making waves with its transparency campaign, jump starting a national conversation about salaries and, by implication, the way businesses conduct their business in…
Hostess, union fail at negotiations
Hostess announced Tuesday night that it failed to reach a new agreement with BCTWGM, and union officials said the company plans to proceed with shuttering its operations after 82 years…
Mediation ordered for Hostess, union
Today in New York a judge for the Federal Bankruptcy Court all-but-ordered mediation between Hostess Brands and the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM) in an effort…