{"id":2781,"date":"2021-04-12T17:12:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ziprecruiter.com\/blog\/?p=34665"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:12:45","slug":"job-news-roundup-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/job-news-roundup-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Job News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>This article provides a roundup of recent news stories related to employment. Team ZipRecruiter will share frequent updates.<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a vote on Friday, Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/04\/09\/amazon-union-vote-bessemer\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> unionization by more than a 2-to-1 margin.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Biden Administration hoped to release federal Covid-19 workplace safety rules by mid-March but OSHA has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-rule-on-covid-19-workplace-safety-misses-deadline-11617796835\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">missed<\/a> this deadline.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Online job postings have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/there-are-now-more-jobs-available-pandemic-so-why-aren-n1263669\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surged<\/a> in recent weeks, but labor force participation has been slow to rebound.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/dbknews.com\/2021\/04\/02\/employees-budget-coronavirus-covid-19\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joins<\/a> a long list of universities, local governments, and hospitals that have now lifted their year-long hiring freezes.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Olive Garden restaurants are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/workforce\/olive-gardens-parent-company-raises-pay-sales-rebound\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raising pay<\/a> and offering one-time bonuses as restaurant dining rebounds in an effort to attract workers. Kroger is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2021\/03\/31\/kroger-raise-average-hourly-wage-16-end-year\/4818437001\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raising<\/a> pay to $16 per hour, while Walmart and Costco are <a href=\"https:\/\/catalyst.independent.org\/2021\/03\/15\/walmart-costco-wages-15\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raising<\/a> hourly wages above $15.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolthouse Farms is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/one-ceo-dangles-500-bonus-for-workers-to-get-covid-19-vaccinations-11616342400\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offering<\/a> workers $500 bonuses to get the Covid-19 vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Canadian economy <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/210409\/dq210409a-eng.htm\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> 303,000 jobs in March, according to a blockbuster jobs report.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides a roundup of recent news stories related to employment. Team ZipRecruiter will share frequent updates. In a vote on Friday, Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama rejected unionization by more than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33,52,31,121,19,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candidate","category-employer","category-hiring","category-job-market-insights","category-job-news-roundup","category-job-search","category-labor-market-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerome1greene.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}