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Canada Life | June 12, 2020

The Canada Life Assurance Company today announced employees will soon begin a phased approach to returning to the office. As a thank you and to help ensure everyone has a chance to refresh, more than 11,000 employees nation-wide are each being awarded two paid Canada Life Days on July 2 and 3, for an extra-long Canada Day celebration. "Three months ago, we asked our employees to be flexible, adaptable, creative and resilient in the face of great change, disruption and uncertainty,” sa...

HR PRACTICE,HR STRATEGY

EQUIFAX INC. and LAWLOGIX | September 01, 2022

Equifax® announced today that it has completed the acquisition of LawLogix, a leading provider of cloud-based I-9 software and immigration case management software. The definitive agreement to acquire LawLogix was announced on July 21, 2022. LawLogix is now part of the Workforce Solutions business unit, expanding the company's portfolio of employer- and HR-focused solutions that help firms manage their hiring and employment needs amidst a rapidly changing landscape. ...

Livability.com | January 29, 2020

While freelancing is expected to make up the majority of the U.S. workforce by 2027, recent pieces of legislation across the country have placed new restrictions on employers and created scrutiny on the field. On January 1, 2020, California Assembly Bill 5 went into effect, making it difficult, yet not impossible, for companies to hire freelancers as independent contractors in the hopes of transitioning them into full-time employees with benefits. Several other states, including New York, New Je...

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

U.S. Department of Labor | January 04, 2021

An employee who decides to telework for part of the day and work in an office for part of the day, and who has adequate opportunity to perform individual errands in the middle of, need not be made up for movement time between the two areas, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL's) Wage and Hour Division said in one of two assessment letters published Dec. 31. The letter refered to two examples. In one, the employee leaves the workplace midday to go to a parent-teacher meeting and ...