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Disney Pays $43M To Settle Gender Pay Gap Allegations

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The case also included an analysis of Disney’s internal pay data from 2015 to 2022, which revealed that women were paid approximately 2% less than men in comparable positions, according to David Neumark, a labor economist at the University of California Irvine. “I strongly commend Ms.

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Market Research: Your Startup’s Blueprint to Thrive

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Launched in 2010 with $2,500, they hit an estimated $100 million in sales by 2015, disrupting optometry in record time. Away In 2015, Away co-founders Steph Korey and Jen Rubio scoured social media, spotting complaints about suitcases that werent stylish or practical.

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U.S. Hiring Hit 9-Year Low In 2024 As Layoffs Surge

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employers last year were the lowest since 2015, a report showed on Thursday, confirming a sharp moderation in job growth over that period. Hiring announcements by U.S. Global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said companies announced 769,953 hiring plans, down 1.3%

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Four-Day Workweek Benefits & Challenges Explained

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Iceland led a major four-day workweek trial from 2015 to 2019, involving 2,500 workers with no pay cuts. Iceland and the United Kingdom have run large-scale pilots, with results showing that productivity stayed the same or improved— while employee wellbeing increased significantly.

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Commercial property growth in regional cities driven by financial services firms

Workplace Insight

Manchester attracted the most investment from financial services companies between 2015 and 2024, with 153,830 square feet of office space, followed by Birmingham (133,587 sq. This is more than the space acquired by manufacturing (238,822 sq. ft) and service industries (224,813 sq. ft) and Edinburgh (121,400 sq.

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There’s a bitter clash on the right. It could determine whether Trump takes us to war.

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During his first presidential bid, in 2015, he trashed the war as a debacle and a “ tremendous disservice to humanity ” — suddenly giving the isolationists in the party, long an irrelevant fringe, a new life. The only foreign policy critique they could imagine was a hawkish one, and the only solution was more hawkishness.

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Three ways Trump’s attack on Iran could spin out of control

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There are, again, two ways to ensure that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei doesn’t make such a choice: a diplomatic agreement akin to the 2015 nuclear deal, or else a war of regime change aimed at overthrowing the Iranian government altogether. The first isn’t impossible, but it certainly seems unlikely at present.

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