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a person or company that has people who do work for wages or a salary; a person or company that has employees
It was the employer's responsibility to improve workplace safety. Your travel expenses should be paid for by your employer.
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Recent Examples of employers
Everyone else can start receiving up to $5,000, adjusted for inflation after 2027, per child annually in total contributions from families, relatives and employers.
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Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
New Jersey is launching a new fee on companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage instead of being covered by their employers.
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Geoff Mulvihill,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2026
Certain children are eligible for a $250 contribution from tech CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan, and others may receive contributions from their parents’ employers.
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Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
However, even with most organizations now using generative AI, the skills employers prize most are analytical and critical thinking, precisely because the technology is powerful but unreliable.
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Elton Chan,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The fees per person would start at $325 a year for companies with 50 to 249 Medicaid beneficiaries and top out at $725 annually for employers with at least 500 recipients.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
André Duvenhage, research director at South Africa’s North-West University, said migrants are often hired because employers see them as willing to work for lower wages and, as non-citizens, they are typically not protected by as many labor protections.
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Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
While other employers are pulling back on junior-level hiring, real estate firms are continuing to invest in business functions that lead to tangible growth.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
For the 2025 awards, 166 employers in the Baltimore metro area earned recognition as Top Workplaces.
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
28 June 2026
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
New Jersey is launching a new fee on companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage instead of being covered by their employers.
—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2026
Certain children are eligible for a $250 contribution from tech CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan, and others may receive contributions from their parents’ employers.
—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
However, even with most organizations now using generative AI, the skills employers prize most are analytical and critical thinking, precisely because the technology is powerful but unreliable.
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Elton Chan,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The fees per person would start at $325 a year for companies with 50 to 249 Medicaid beneficiaries and top out at $725 annually for employers with at least 500 recipients.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
André Duvenhage, research director at South Africa’s North-West University, said migrants are often hired because employers see them as willing to work for lower wages and, as non-citizens, they are typically not protected by as many labor protections.
—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
While other employers are pulling back on junior-level hiring, real estate firms are continuing to invest in business functions that lead to tangible growth.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 June 2026
For the 2025 awards, 166 employers in the Baltimore metro area earned recognition as Top Workplaces.
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
28 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for employers
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If fee-paying students were becoming increasingly integral to the financial solvency of universities, what were administrators to do but treat them as customers to flatter and court, rather than as minds to mold?
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For leaders who work with executive assistants or administrators, alignment is incredibly important.
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According to a 2026 PwC analysis, 45 percent of deal executives are now deploying AI in their M&A processes, double the rate of the prior year.
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SpaceX’s compensation philosophy historically favored equity over cash salaries, so this windfall extends well beyond executives and engineers to include nontechnical staff, entry-level workers and even cafeteria employees.
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Thanks to a wetter weather pattern and recent tropical rains, stream flows across the much of the state have started to rebound, farmers are tending healthy crops and water managers are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief.
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First-time managers, meanwhile, comprised under 10%.
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Would an army with excellent captains and mediocre generals be better than one with a brilliant general and crummy captains?
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In that same study of HR directors and executives, two-thirds of managers were reported to regularly avoid or delay giving critical feedback, which is the slow-motion version of the problem Gen Z is trying to head off.
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While a board of trustees or directors may continue to manage operations, sole members typically can appoint or remove board members of the subsidiary entity and shape policies.
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Weeks before the report was published, supervisors voted to authorize Board Chair Oscar Villegas and County Administrator Michael Webb to issue that statement on the county’s behalf immediately upon the report’s release.
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In September 2025, Sacramento County supervisors unanimously approved the purchase of another 27 drones for the sheriff’s office with a starting price of $5,000 per drone, according to the KCRA 3 TV station.
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His job was to cut and paste responses from scripts his scam bosses generated.
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Some bosses are demanding, disorganized or poor communicators but still want their teams to succeed.
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Immer and Lois work with land stewards to find projects that make sense for eager but often inexperienced volunteers.
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They are hired hands and stewards of other people’s capital, with no desire to becoming embroiled in internecine squabbles between clashing advocates, parochial activists, and plain opportunists latching on to the moment.
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“Employers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employers. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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