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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Unlike Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the United States has generally failed to develop widely accepted skills standards for particular sectors. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. public workforce-development system do.

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Expert Q&A: Understanding the DOL’s Overtime Rules

HR Digest

This threshold has been raised from the previous limit of $455 per week of 40 hours, which was set in 2004. Non-managerial employees in maintenance, construction, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, ironworkers, craftsmen, operating engineers, and longshoremen, all qualify. It is estimated that 1.3