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Happy Thanksgiving From Green Key Resources
Read the rest of this entry »From all of us at Green Key Resources, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank You for Your Service
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Today we honor America’s living military veterans.
It’s a holiday first observed a century ago to mark the end of the First World War, which concluded at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918.
First known as Armistice Day, in 1954 the name was changed to Veterans Day to recognize all military veterans, those who served in time of peace as well as war. …
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In Honor of Home Care and Hospice Workers
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Every day, all across the country millions of home care aides, therapists, nurses and social workers make life better for people with chronic illnesses, the disabled and healthy, but frail elderly by assisting them with daily living activities.
Home health aides care for patients who are still living at home, helping to lift the burden from family caregivers. Nurses and therapists make regular visits to their housebound patients to check …
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It’s Election Day!
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At the risk of being Captain Obvious, it’s Election Day. Have you voted?
Unlike any other, this election has seen a record number of Americans casting their ballot days, even weeks before today's official voting day. COVID-19 made many of us wary of being exposed to the virus, so states took steps to make voting more convenient and to limit the need to visit a polling place.
That doesn’t mean …
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It’s National Payroll Week!
Read the rest of this entry »You know that this is National Payroll Week, right?
No? But you knew that Monday was Labor Day, a paid company holiday, didn’t you?
What if the payroll professional who handles the time cards, tracks vacation days, sick days, paid holidays, makes sure your deductions are right and processes all the paychecks “forgot” Monday was a paid holiday?
Not that any payroll professional would, but you get the point.
Those …
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In Honor of Our Essential Workers, Happy Labor Day
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This Labor Day we at Green Key Resources say "Thank You" to all the nation's essential workers.
Thank you to the postal carriers and drivers who brought us the mail and delivered our packages.
Thank you healthcare professionals who braved the coronavirus to care for the sick and provide comfort to their families.
Thank you farmers and farm workers, grocery clerks, cashiers, butchers and the many other food workers and …
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Business Indicators, Staffing Hires Point to an Improving Economy
Read the rest of this entry »After falling in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2014, staffing employment came roaring back in the second quarter that ended June 30, adding almost 200,000 new temporary and contract workers to the US economy.
The numbers from the Labor Department released July 2 bear out the trend first seen in the weekly Staffing Index produced by the American Staffing Association. The Index, which tracks weekly changes in …
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Have a Safe and Fun 4th of July
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Have a wonderful Fourth of July.
And stay safe.
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This Year Juneteenth Will Be Different
Read the rest of this entry »It was June 19, 1865, two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army and 2 and a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, that the slaves of Texas learned they were free.
Ever since, June 19 has been celebrated as Juneteenth. From an inauspicious beginning in Galveston 155 years ago, Juneteenth celebrations spread throughout Texas. But it wasn’t until the civil rights activism of the 1960s …
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Supreme Court Extends Employment Protection to LGBTQ Workers
Read the rest of this entry »Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender workers from employment discrimination.
It is a decision that extends the protection nationwide and affirms a practice we at Green Key Resources have always followed.
“At Green Key Resources, equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be a fundamental principle,” said Adina Goldman, Director of Human Resources. “We’ve always been committed to a …
