Employee Resource Group Heads Demand Compensation for Extra Work

Employers are facing mounting calls to compensate and revisit the roles of their employee resource group leaders as they take on more leadership responsibilities while juggling their regular full-time job duties.

These groups for decades have created a space in the workplace for employees with shared identities like gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, as well as common interests, to gather and provide career or personal development support in alignment with broader organizational goals.

ERGs have become prominent at businesses across the country in recent years amid a growing interest in creating an inclusive corporate culture among workers and management, a ...