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Uniqlo’s Bold Move: Addressing Employee Burnout with a 40% Pay Increase

HR Digest

Are you ready for a pay raise? It looks like it’s raining raises in corporate Japan as more and more companies are announce a pay increase as a response to the call from Japan’s Prime Minister for companies to help employees struggling with rising inflation costs.

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Poundstretcher raises store staff pay by 10%

Employee Benefits

Discount retailer Poundstretcher has awarded a 10% pay rise to its nearly 4,000 store employees, effective from 1 April 2023. This began in 2020 and allowed it to pay back debts over an agreed period, as well as closing stores and making more than 200 redundancies.

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What’s a merit increase, and should your business use them?

Business Management Daily

For a pay raise to qualify as a merit increase, it must be performance-based and provide a permanent increase to a worker’s base salary. Here’s a look at other types of financial rewards and how they differ from merit pay. Regular Pay Raises Not every increase to an employee’s annual salary qualifies as a merit increase.

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Amazon workers on Staten Island file for union vote

HR Digest

After Bessemer, Alabama, now about 2,000 workers at the e-retail giant‘s facilities in Staten Island, N.Y., The ALU wants pay raises, time off increases and a right to employee advocacy and longer breaks, better medical facilities against the pandemic and holidays. Amazon workers are persisting in their attempts to unionize.

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Inflationary Cycle

Florida Workers' Comp

There were rumors that restaurants and retail actually closed or altered hours of operation. Retail faced product shortages. The lenders are getting paid, your government is printing or borrowing the money to pay loans. I always thought I would get pay raises year after year after year. I was wrong.

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Inflationary Cycle

Florida Workers' Comp

There were rumors that restaurants and retail actually closed or altered hours of operation. Retail faced product shortages. The lenders are getting paid, your government is printing or borrowing the money to pay loans. I always thought I would get pay raises year after year after year. I was wrong.

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American employers’ push for minimum wage increase faces an uphill battle

HR Digest

Two years later, it announced it will pay $20 an hour over the next two years. The world’s biggest online retailer Amazon a pay raise for over 500,000 workers across its fulfilment and transportation sectors. This pay bump could be as low as an additional 50 cents an hour to as much as three extra dollars per hour.

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