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First Data’s Frank Bisignano On Giving Back To Veterans Today — And Every Day

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Veterans, he said, have a lot to offer society, even after their tour of duty is over — and it’s been his career-long commitment to see that they get those opportunities. Giving jobs to veterans is important to helping them transition back into civilian society, he noted. At the end of 2017, about 370,000 veterans were unemployed.

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SHRM Debuts New Faster Pay Solution For Unbanked Americans

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has announced its new SHRM Payment Solution, a press release says, which will focus on faster delivery of payment to employees via electronic means. percent in 2019, but it could skyrocket due to the pandemic's recession and surging unemployment numbers. percent in 2011, from 7.6

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Lyft Turns To Meal, Grocery Deliveries

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The coronavirus pandemic has proven especially fraught for gig workers at Lyft, Uber and similar companies — as society shuts down and people aren’t going places, many drivers have found themselves lacking for work.

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How Marketplaces Fill The Global Covid-19 Talent Gap

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Freelancers worldwide found themselves impacted by the new coronavirus as it shuttered businesses and stalled payments, with many gig workers now fulfilling critical roles to keep society moving as consumers retreat inside of their homes. Food delivery and Uber drivers, for example, are among those still able to work.

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The Rocky Road To Recovery: Cashless And Contactless, The Credit Crunch And A Community Effort

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Unemployment figures continue to soar and businesses big and small are developing increasingly dark outlooks on their prospects for bouncing back. A difficult turn of events, Webster noted, as a credit crunch coming as consumers are facing furloughs, halted paychecks and unemployment is a tough pairing. It is fair to say that the U.S.

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Unions Urge New York To Follow California’s Lead On Gig Workers

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Independent contractors are also not protected by the state’s workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance. “We New York’s wage and hour laws currently don’t apply to workers classified as independent contractors, which is the case for those who drive for app-based rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft.

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Using P2P Payments To Bank More Of The Unbanked

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“When you think about how the banks staff their organizations and how they may want to engage this underserved community, [AI/ML] is really a perfect use case for bringing technology to the betterment of society,” Switt noted. “I I think it can play a very strong role, provided it is built within the context of social justice.?”.

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