Tag: labor

Training and development are critical to creating a strong employee experience.

The Employee Experience Index report, from the IBM Smarter Workforce Institute and Workhuman, finds that meaningful work, which fully utilizes an employee’s talents and skills and is aligned with the company’s core values, leads to a 50 percentage-point increase in employee experience.

Company ownership and top management are critical to creating a workplace where employees have a positive experience.

Artificial Intelligence platforms examine data that measures mostly employee experience in the workplace rather than financial factors.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today praised the Department of Labor’s new H2A Wage Rule, which delivers on President Trump’s promise to stabilize farm labor costs and reform the H-2A wage rate.

Labor shortages have been a long-running issue in the fresh produce industry, at least until Covid-19 hit, and employees have had the upper hand when it comes to choosing where to work.

State COVID-19 testing at one of Washington’s largest fruit growers indicates that Gebbers Farms’ preventive measures have been effective at protecting workers, though the family-owned company continues to mourn the loss of three team members earlier this summer.

The U.S. produce industry seems to be trapped in a race against time. Will it solve its labor difficulties—exacerbated but not created by the coronavirus—in time?

Many produce and retail companies have ethical and sustainable labor practices, but the challenge has been how to communicate that to partners and consumers. One way is to endorse the Ethical Charter on Responsible Labor Practices, and then follow its framework.

News reports have suggested that the COVID-19 virus is raging through rural areas, such as Salinas, CA, and putting crops at risk of not being harvested. Not so says a local association.