HR Roundup: Another Unemployment Low for Ohio
- Ohio’s unemployment dropped to 3.4% in June, marking the lowest unemployment rate since 1976 for the third straight month.
- Ohio’s labor force participation rate remained at 62.1% last month, compared to 62.6% nationally.
- Ohio manufacturing lost 3,000 jobs in June.
- This map shows the job quit rates in all 50 states.
- The Biden administration wants to force health insurers to create coverage parity between mental and physical health care. (This as employer health care costs were already expected to increase 5.4% this year.)
- OMA Connections Partner GBQ Partners has published this guidance on selecting a qualified auditor for your employee benefit plan.
- A new survey finds 74% of managers say Gen Z — born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s — is the most challenging generation to work with. One in eight managers say they’ve fired a GenZer within a week of his/her start date.
- U.S. immigration officials have made changes to the I-9 employment verification process, including increased flexibility for E-Verify. See guidance from OMA Connections Partners Dinsmore and Fisher Phillips.
Meanwhile, by 2031, workers 55 and older will comprise 25% or more of the workforces in G7 countries — including the U.S. — a new study finds. That’s up 10% from a decade ago. 7/27/2023