Tag: Pay

I picked up Marty Makary’s book The Price We Pay as I started looking into the price transparency problem in the USA. Family members, friends, and many colleagues complained about the surprise bills when they received care in America. I thought this was a big enough problem for me to...

James, my HR director, had been beside me the entire morning. We interviewed candidate after candidate for the sales team. By 11, we have done 4 interviews. I was in desperate need of a break. It was at this critical soul-sapping juncture that Paul made his entry. I remember James telling m...

Shuumi means “gift” in Chochenyo, the language spoken by the Lisjan Ohlone people whose traditional territory spans much of what is now known as the East Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having survived over two centuries of genocide and colonization, the Lisjan continue to inhabit th...

It’s not hard to find Jayne Williams. She drives a bright yellow Dodge Neon that she’ll tell you she’s surprised didn’t break down on the way here. On the side of the car is a large pink magnet that reads: VOTE FOR JAYNE WILLIAMS. Her laugh is the loudest in the room, her smi...

My immediate reaction was to delete the email. I don’t want to read about this, even when it’s a victory. Or I should say, was a victory, a short-lived one at that. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Kate Cox, a Texas resident, recently got a fatal diagnosis fo...

If you contributed to a deferred account, you did not pay taxes on that money. Once you withdrawal it you will be required to pay taxes on it, plus any earnings and vested matching. Depending on your federal and state brackets that can be a large portion. Not all the money stored in a Roth versio...

Last weekend my friend was given a fine of 80 euros for forgetting to pay the parking ticket of 3 euros. It made me think of several things such as how is the fine amount justified, does it change behavior and in general how can we improve things. The fines given out in the Netherlands are often ...

More than 50 years since the passing of the 1970 Equal Pay Act, labour performed by women continues to be undervalued in the UK (Giapponi and Mcevoy, 2005; Bornstein, 2018; Yearby, 2019). Even when controlling for factors such as experience and contract type, one study found an unexplained gender pa...