Week of June 17, 2019

PAY EQUITY ANALYSIS

To manage the risk of pay discrimination, organizations should conduct periodic pay equity analysis. The goal of a pay equity study or analysis is to identify problems and ensure compensation practices are fair and equitable.

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How to Gain Referral Traffic to Your Hotel Website? Many hotels struggle to get traffic to their websites – whether it has just been launched, during a lower season or in a saturated market but you can always count on one strategy when you’re low on those session numbers: referral traffic. (eHotelier) Read More

Meininger CEO on Brand's U.S. Debut, Disruptor Status A model that gives guests the option to book by the room or by the bed is popular in Europe and appeals to an underserved market in the U.S. and North America, CEO Hannes Spanring said. (Hotel News Now) Read More

Poor Performers According to the March 2019 edition of CBRE's Hotel Horizons® forecast report, the 2019 average annual occupancy level for U.S. hotels is projected to be 66.2 percent. (Hospitality Net) Read More

The Impact of Technology on Hotel Sales and Marketing Gone are the days when travelers sought accommodations using the local newspaper or the telephone directory, picked up the phone and called to make a reservation. Hospitality sales and marketing in the 21st century is a much more vibrant, complex activity, populated by multifaceted stakeholders at every level of the industry. (Hotel Executive) Read More

How Hospitals Are Responding to Thousands of Disruptive Robocalls Hospitals across the country have seen on overwhelming influx of robocalls, including Tufts Medical Center, which registered more than 4,500 robocalls in two hours in April 2018, reports The Washington Post. (Becker's Hospital Review) Read More

Senators Differ on Best Approach to Ban Surprise Billing Legislators didn't appear to come closer to a concrete solution for surprise billing payment methodology in a Senate committee meeting Tuesday on a slate of proposals to lower healthcare costs. (Healthcare Dive) Read More

Health Systems Eye Commercial Payers for More Downside Risk Finance executives at hospitals and health systems see the most opportunity to work with commercial insurers to increase downside risk in payment contracts, according to a new survey. (Modern Healthcare) Read More

Senate Privacy Bill Aims to Set New Federal Standard for Consumer Health Apps Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have introduced a bill that would create new privacy regulations protecting consumer health data collected through health tracking apps, fitness wearables and direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits. (Fierce Healthcare) Read More

Here's the No. 1 Reason Why Employees Quit Their Jobs I f you go to work every day just going through the motions, you aren’t alone. According to Gallup, only 33% of employees are engaged at work. So, how can nearly 70% of the workforce be disengaged? (CNBC) Read More

Employers Hire the Formerly Incarcerated Despite Internal Hurdles A customer once told Jeff Brown, president and CEO of Philadelphia-based grocery chain Brown's Super Stores, that his future "wasn't that bright," since his stores were located in underprivileged communities with high rates of incarceration. (HR Dive) Read More

5 Steps to Successfully Automate Your HR Department Human Resources (HR) requires a lot of human input. Therefore, it’s not surprising that HR has embraced robotic process automation (RPA) tools, which are designed to save businesses and employees time by automating repetitive clerical tasks using software robots. (HR Daily Advisor) Read More

New Final HRA Regulations Expand Options for Employers New final health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) regulations could encourage U.S. employers of all sizes to give workers cash the workers could use to buy their own health coverage. (Benefits Pro) Read More

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