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There are few surprises more pleasant than rocking up to a pub and realising it’s still happy hour, with it fair to presume many Aussies would buy more than one drink to get their money’s worth. However one venue is stopping drinkers taking too much of an advantage from the discounted prices, and will penalise them by taking away a full drink if their happy hour rule is broken. A customer visiting St George Motor Boat Club in Sydney‘s south spotted a sign on his table detailing the ‘no drink… Source link

Contractors at a company that employs raters who oversee training, testing… Source link

September 19, 2022 According to Yahoo News, job candidates are hiring proxies and paying up to $150 an hour to sit in job interviews. A story published on Yahoo News reported the reasons for the use of proxies range from candidates being nervous or underqualified for the job to criminals that are trying to steal data to damage a company’s reputation. The trend has been noticed… Source link

A California federal judge has ordered Alphabet Inc.‘s Google to pay nearly $1 million for discovery misconduct after the company concealed employees and other relevant data in a lawsuit alleging web browser privacy violations. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan represents Google in the case, while Boies Schiller Flexner represents the class-action plaintiffs. Quinn Emanuel lawyers had urged Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen not to levy sanctions against Google, saying the company had… Source link

With the labor market continuing to be super competitive, the baseline for hourly wages may be approaching $20 if companies want to attract badly needed talent, said one economist. “I am starting to see a willingness to hit the $18 an hour mark. I am kind of looking at that more as maybe where companies start to come in on a regular basis,” said Emsi Burning Glass chief economist Ron Hetrick on Yahoo Finance Live. “You had companies like Amazon who set the standard there. I think everybody… Source link

It’s just a good business decision to keep on raising hourly wages for workers as it will help retain the top talent that is driving strong sales and profits, explains Target CFO Michael Fiddelke. Target said this week it would lift hourly wages for workers in distribution centers, stores, etc. to $15 to $24 an hour depending on location and position. The total investment will amount to $300 million. The discounter revealed back in 2017 a desire to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by… Source link

Walmart (WMT) is holding a supply-chain national hiring event later this week. The average wage for the retail giant’s supply chain associates is $20.37 per hour. The hiring event will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, November 3-4, in numerous states and locations. Job openings include equipment operators, repair technicians, freight handlers and order filler/lift drivers just to name a few. A worker is seen wearing a mask while organizing merchandise at a Walmart store, in North… Source link

Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, is raising wages for 565,000 of its nearly 1.2 million store associates, marking the retailer’s third wage hike for hourly associates in the last year. “Effective Sept. 25, associates in the Frontend, Food & Consumable and General Merchandise work groups will receive at least a $1 an hour raise. That means a raise for more than 565,000 store associates. It’s our third wage investment in store associates over the past year,” U.S…. Source link

Robinhood shares began trading Thursday under the ticker HOOD, opening on the public markets at $38 per share. The shares had also been priced at $38. In the first half hour, the stock dropped around 5% to around $36. The stock was expected to be priced between $38 and $42, coming in at the lower end of the range, and giving the company a valuation of $32 billion.  The investing app offers a simple and mobile-first way for investors to buy stocks, ETFs, and even cryptocurrency and played a… Source link

Google has brought an end to its effectively “unlimited” group video calls in Meet for free Gmail accounts, according to support pages spotted by 9to5Google. Now users with free accounts logging on to Meet will have group calls capped at an hour rather than the previous 24-hour meeting duration. Google’s unlimited group meeting offer was helpful because so many traditionally in-person functions moved online due to COVID-19. Not having to worry about a call cutting out or creating… Source link