Yesterday, I read a blog about an equal pay challenge the US DOL announced. The challenge is to build an innovative tool, or an app as it is more commonly called, that uses "publicly available labor data and other online resources to educate users about the pay gap and to build tools to promote equal pay." There are prizes including $5,000 cash and scholarships for training sessions. The app has to accomplish at least one of four goals more specfically outlined on the challenge page.
The first goal is to "Provide greater access to pay data by gender, race, and ethnicity. . . that would be helpful to women throughout their careers as they negotiate starting pay, request a promotion or a raise, or consider switching fields to a more lucrative career path." This made me think of the last post I did concerning HIWI. The DLIR is always collecting data and having a simple way to retrieve it on your phone would be helpful. If you could use your smart phone to look up the range of salary for a specific kind of position in Hawaii that would be helpful period, to men and women alike.
The focus of this current challenge is equal pay for equal work. Other challenges have focused on other topics. There is the Jobs for Heros app that e-mails veterans about job openings in their areas that have similar skill sets as their Military Occupational Speciality. (herojobs.org)
The DLIR has a timecard app link on the Main DLIR page that was developed by the US DOL. (Look for Timesheet App under "Tools") This is a helpful tool for employees to track their hours and keep records so they know what to expect in their paychecks. While it still requires the employee to use the app for it work, chances are a person is more likely to have their phone on them, then a pencil and paper to record information.
App development may be foreign to me, but so far I haven't met an App I didn't like. This equal pay app contest closes March 30 with a winner to be announced April 15.
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