Workforce Planning
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2013: A Time for Re-imagining How Work Gets Done
How work gets done, who does it and the tools they use to accomplish the task are all shifting as the new year approaches.
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2013 Employment Forecast: A Fiscal Cliffhanger
How well the job market recovers in the next 12 months could depend on what Congress decides in the next few weeks.
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Some Employers Are Becoming Flexible About Flexible Workplace Initiatives
Weather events such as Hurricane Sandy and the havoc they wreak in the workplace are prompting more discussions about nontraditional ways to get work done. Compressed workweeks, job sharing and telecommuting are other options gaining buzz.
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GM Plans to Hire 3,000 HP Employees for Insourcing
The employees being hired already work on GM's business at HP and are expected to be on GM's payroll within six months. An undisclosed number of HP employees currently assigned to GM are not affected, the companies said.
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Why Manufacturing Can't Keep Up
Factory jobs demand more math and science skills than most Americans possess. Meanwhile, young people have turned their backs on manufacturing.
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Made in the USA
The collaboration between Permac Industries and Dunwoody College of Technology is an example of a new brand of college-industry partnerships that might eventually help the U.S. grow as a manufacturing power while creating jobs.
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Creating a New Contingent Culture
Why giving free agents an 'arms-length embrace' is the way forward.
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Podcast: Creating a New Contingent Culture
The CYA Report podcast is a partnership between Workforce Management and Fistful of Talent. In this special edition, Workforce Management contributors Ed Frauenheim and Kris Dunn discuss the growing need to show contingent workers more love.
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Four Common Myths About Temporary Workers and Contractors
In July 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a race and sex discrimination case against a Cleveland-area temporary agency.
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Why Now for the ‘Free-Agent Nation’?
Using temporary workers at the start of a recovery is nothing new. But other factors behind the contingent expansion are less tied to the business cycle. These include cost-savings.
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Working With Contingents
You can have the best, brightest and most flexible workforce if you consider these suggestions for working with contingents. These tips will help you become a “nonemployer of choice.”
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Goodyear Commits to Hiring 1,000 U.S. Military Veterans
Goodyear said it will hire the veterans over the next three years through its partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Hiring Our Heroes program.
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Suburban Flight: Google Moving 3,000 Motorola Mobility Jobs Into Chicago
The 3,000 jobs figure could grow, as Motorola Mobility expects to consolidate other offices into the new downtown space and add more if it is successful in releasing new products in the fast-changing market for cellphones and other wireless devices.
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Seasonal Firefighters to Become Eligible for Federal Employee Health Benefits Program
President Barack Obama was motivated to order several federal agencies to change those policies by a recent visit to Colorado, where wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes.
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Indianapolis Law Aims to Curb Temp 'Blacklisting'
The rule prohibits hotels from signing deals with contractors—such as staffing firms—that prevent the hotels from hiring the contractor's employees directly, according to city documents.
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IT Onboarding Crucial to Productivity: Survey
Despite their agreement on the importance of onboarding programs, 57 percent of IT leaders say they have a formal, strategic onboarding plan less than 20 percent of the time, while just 18 percent of IT professionals say sufficient attention is given to developing a strong onboarding program.
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CareerBuilder: Expect More Temps on the Job
A new survey by the job board giant sees a spike in temporary hires but also found that employers plan to hire more permanent, full-time employees.
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Wall St. Jobs Grow, Defying Forecasts
Surprising resilience, as employment rolls rise 2 percent in 12 months. Hot area: compliance.
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Flex Schedules Tops Workers' Summer Wish List
A new Robert Half study also showed that employers may be warming up to such perks, with 75 percent of human resources managers saying their company offers flexible schedules during the summer
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Veterans Unprepared for Career Transition, Report States
Just 29 percent of veterans were confident about finding work that suited them, notes a May index released by Monster, down from 44 percent in November.
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Survey: 29% of Employers Looking to Hire Summer Interns
Seventy-one percent of employers hiring this summer add that they'll be considering some hires for permanent positions.
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Going Prospect Hunting for Auto Technicians at Local Vocational Schools
Auto Dealer Joel Higley advertised for a service technician 10 years ago. He didn't get one application. The stinging memory of that experience prompted Higley to get involved in a nearby vocational technology school to recruit a homegrown work force.
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Behind the Management Shake-Up at Financial Firm LPL
Outsiders said such changes in management were to be expected in a company that has evolved over the past decade from a closely held, private firm to a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of $4 billion.
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Survey: 37% Use Social Media to Check Candidates
Thirty-four percent of hiring managers and human resources professionals said they found information on social media that caused them not to hire a candidate.
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Job Hunters Grow in Numbers: 62% of U.S. Workers Seek New Job
Globally, 66 percent of workers plan to seek new jobs in the next two years, according to the Kelly survey.
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Military Veterans Finding a Niche Among Auto Dealers
Not only can dealers get one-time tax credits ranging from $2,400 to $9,600 for hiring veterans, but recruiters and dealers say many veterans have attributes that make them strong job candidates.
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How to Find the Right IT Help
Is outsourcing your IT upkeep right for your company—and if so, how can you find the right consultant? Here are some key questions to consider.
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Contingent Workers to Make Up Bulk of New Staff at Auto Plant
Volkswagen Group of America plans to create 800 new jobs at its Chattanooga, Tenn., manufacturing facility, the company announced. Many of those new jobs will go to contingent workers at the facility who are now employed by Aerotek, opening up opportunities for new contingents.
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Colorado Auto Dealers' Recruiting Plight Reflects National Trend
Across the country, dealers face a similar challenge, especially in attracting young people who embrace technology. Dealers want experienced or educated people who want a career in the auto industry.
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Hiring Plans Forecast to Reach 2008 Levels
Hiring plans of U.S. employers for the second quarter are the highest since 2008, according to the new employment outlook survey released today by ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), one of the world's largest staffing firms.
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Staffing Firms Still Find H-1B Difficulties
For staffing firms, there has been difficulty bringing in workers on H-1B visas after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service released the 'Neufeld Memo' in 2010. The memo listed 'third-party placement/job shop' as an example of a firm that does not qualify as an H-1B visa employer.
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Lagging Economy Aside, Interviewees Say the Darndest Things
Job board giant CareerBuilder listed some of the most unusual interview experiences based on an online survey of more than 3,000 employers.
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Prospects for Boost in Employee Mass Transit Tax Breaks Dim
The history of the higher mass transit tax break goes back to 2009, when lawmakers approved an economic stimulus measure that allowed employees to reduce their taxable salaries by up to $230 a month to pay for mass transit expenses.
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Staffing a Chief Worry for Health Care IT
A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey found that almost 90 percent of respondents plan to complete their conversion to the new federally mandated ICD-10 medical codes used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures by the Oct. 31, 2013, deadline.
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Well-Trained Managers Can Curb Attrition
It may not always be a straight-line connection, but managers exert great influence on whether top performers stay or go.
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Getting to the Heart of Retention
It's logical to conclude that poor managers are at the heart of the problem, says Richard Finnegan, co-founder of the Retention Institute and author of Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad.
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IT Employment Hits All-Time High
On an annual basis, IT jobs were up 3.4 percent in 2011, more than double the rate of growth that IT employment experienced in 2010 of 1.5 percent.
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Norwegian Insurance Company Monitors Workers' Bathroom Breaks
Norway's chief workplace ombudsman Bjorn Erik Thon told a media outlet that one firm required employees to wear a red bracelet during their menstrual cycles to indicate the need for more restroom visits.
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EEOC Files Sex Bias Suit Against Mavis Discount Tire
Filed Jan. 31 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the suit accuses Mavis Discount Tire and its allied companies of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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Court: Warehouse Can't Fire Contract Workers
A California judge ruled the workers, who are suing the warehouse and staffing provider, would likely be able to prove the firing was retaliatory.
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Independent Contractors Helping to Shape the New World of Work
Of 530 recently surveyed independent consultants, more than 80 percent expressed satisfaction with their employment status, although 27 percent admitted that, given the chance, they would return to a full-time job.
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Selling Cars Online Is More than a Typical Sales Job
Moving from the showroom to the Internet desk can be a tough transition for a salesperson. Internet car sales require a different skill set from showroom car sales. But if a salesperson succeeds, the payoff is sizable.
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Exec Recruiters Doing Recruiting of Their Own
A big majority of New York's largest executive recruiting firms added to or maintained staff size. Hot fields include health care and technology—and even certain financial services.
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Law Can Have Big Impact on Small Businesses
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 could help your business grow.
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The 411 on the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 contains several provisions that can spur growth for a range of small businesses, from one-man shops to companies worth millions. Here is a guide to the most useful parts of the bill.
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Grads Snag Highest Wages Among Securities Firms
Securities employers paid grads an average starting salary of $58,571. Overall, they provided 42,000 jobs to the Class of 2011.
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The Foreboding Footnote to NYC's Job Growth
Lower-paying jobs make up most of the city's expected job growth for the next two years as health care and social services positions flourish.
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Kraft to Cut 1,600 Jobs in U.S., Canada
The Northfield, Illinois-based company will reorganize its domestic sales team, consolidate its U.S. management centers and trim the corporate and business units.
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Move to Flexible Workforce Is Permanent, Consultants Say
The online M Squared poll of independent consultants was conducted in December 2011 and included responses from 530 professional independent consultants.
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Sears, State Farm, Navistar and Others Show How to Bring Veterans on Board
Keeping positions open while employees are on military duty presents a challenge for the managers and peers left behind—a difficulty large corporations often find easier to absorb than smaller employers.
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Pepsi Settles EEOC Charges of Racial Bias in Screenings for $3M
Under Pepsi's former policy, job applicants who had been arrested pending prosecution were not hired for a permanent job even if they had never been convicted of any offense.
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Home Depot Hiring 70,000 Seasonal Workers
The home improvement retailer said that half of last year's seasonal hires stayed on in permanent jobs. Those positions included cashiers, sales associates, lot associates and garden associates.
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Archer Daniels Midland Announces Plan to Cut 1,000 Jobs
The cutbacks represent 3 percent of the company's total workforce, according to a release issued Jan. 11.
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Survey Reveals Slight Climb in Full-Time Hiring
An annual CareerBuilder forecast also shows 59 percent anticipate no change in their staff levels and 11 percent are unsure whether there will be change.
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Survey: Crowd Sourcing a Second Job for Many
Crowd sourcing can involve breaking up a large task such as validating data or translation into many small tasks and farming them out to numerous workers online instead of hiring a single worker or small number of workers to do the single large task.
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Help Wanted: Vets, Foreign Workers Sought by U.S. Organizations
A new SHRM survey, ‘Global Competition and Hiring Strategies,' marks the third and final survey in a series by SHRM that explores the ongoing impact of the recession.
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Majority of Workers to Be Independent By 2020
Independent workers include those on fixed-term contracts, independent consultants, those working through temporary agencies, workers on an on-call arrangement and those who own a business with less than five employees.
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California Supreme Court Nears Ruling on Meal Breaks
While meal-period laws vary nationwide, California is among the states wrestling with how far employers should go in policing meal and rest breaks.
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Morgan Stanley to Pare Workforce by 1,600
Reps are safe, but 'business won't entirely escape the belt-tightening.'
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IBM Announces Vendor Management System Acquisition
The acquisition is part of the company's 'Smarter Commerce' initiative begun in March 2011 and aimed at helping companies respond to shifting customer buying patterns.
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Hotel Chain Sues Search Firm for $5 Million
UPDATE: A hospitality industry executive search firm that was sued by a New York hotel operator in a lawsuit seeking $5 million in punitive damages said the allegations in the lawsuit are false.
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Nothing Seems to Be Clicking
Experts predict that the hiring drought, which has overtaken the U.S. employment landscape over the past few years, will continue in 2012 as companies are still cautious about the recovery.
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SHRM Survey Reveals Help Wanted Sign is Out—Sort Of
Companies this past year began hiring replacements for laid-off workers, but the percentage hiring for new jobs took a nosedive.
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Is ‘Giganomics' the Future of Your Online Workforce?
Gigwalk is the latest entry in the slowly growing field of online labor exchanges. Services like this only may work well for certain kinds of jobs and tasks, but if the fit is right, it offers an opportunity for predictable and high-quality work.
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Surveys Focus on Veterans' Employment
A CareerBuilder survey found that 20 percent of employers plan to actively recruit U.S. veterans over the next 12 months while a separate survey by Monster.com found that 69 percent of firms found that veterans perform their job functions 'much better' than non-veterans.
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The Undocumented Side of Hiring
Employers can guard against hiring undocumented workers by becoming familiar with federal regulations and enforcement practices. The primary document reviewed by federal agencies is the Form I-9.
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ADP's Next Big Things
ADP's product launches and acquisitions are part of a plan to expand ancillary services, international operations and human resources and business process outsourcing, which while still small, are growing three times faster than its mainstay payroll business, according to one analyst.
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Tech Tools for Hiring Disabled Candidates
Here are some handy tools when considering hiring disabled workers.
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Groupon puts Employees—and Investors—on Notice as IPO Nears
The Chicago-based website offering deep discounts on local businesses has been more aggressive in doing performance reviews, starting earlier this year. It raised quotas and began holding employees more accountable to those targets and forcing out those who couldn't hit them.
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New Tool Gauges Cost Benefits When Hiring Disabled Workers
The tool focuses on three federal tax incentive programs: the Work Opportunity Credit, which can provide a maximum $2,400 tax credit; the Disabled Access Credit, which helps small businesses defray the cost of providing special equipment; and the Architectural Barrier Removal Tax Deduction, which...
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Caterpillar Sees Climb in Flex, Full-Time Workers
Full-time, traditional employment at Caterpillar rose 18.7 percent to 121,513 workers at the end of the third quarter.
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Building a Sales Team Starts With the First Impression
Success is the bottom line, but before the first call, experts say look at a candidate's appearance and pay attention to your initial reaction. Once they're on the team, train, train and train some more.
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Six Sales Force Pitfalls
Experts agree that there are some common mistakes companies make when building a sales team. Below, we offer six tips to avoid sales force problems:
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Hudson Reorganizes, Names New Officers
The consulting firm also named Tracy Noon as chief people officer and Steve Zales as chief knowledge officer.
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Poll Says Overweight Workers Miss Millions More Days of Work
Their missed work results in about $153 billion in lost productivity annually, according to data collected this year by Washington-based Gallup.
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Nesco Affiliate Acquires DePasquale Staffing
The acquisition was announced on Oct. 17. Terms were not disclosed.
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Special Report on Contingent Staffing: Flexibility Reigning
As the U.S. unemployment rate hovers around 9 percent, the contingent staffing market is booming with a half-million jobs added over a 12-month period.
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Ford to Add, Retain 12,000 Jobs With New UAW Agreement
The automaker plans to insource manufacturing work from Mexico, Japan and China. The 12,000 new or retained jobs include 5,000 previously announced positions, Ford said.
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Texas Gun Law Adds New Level of Vigilance for Employers
More than a dozen states already have such laws and adding Texas to that group was a major coup for the gun rights lobby. Two previous bills had failed in the Legislature before SB 321—known as the Employee Parking Lot Bill—passed in May and was signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry.
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Successful Staffing Strategies
Staffing firms and corporate human resources executives offer their best practices on developing a contingent labor strategy.
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Senate Backs Higher Tax Credit for Certain Health Insurance Premiums
The tax credit can be used to offset the cost of a variety of health insurance plans, including COBRA continuation coverage and individual plans offered by commercial insurers. Nearly 60 percent of beneficiaries use the credit to pay COBRA premiums.
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The Goods on the 'Good Employer'
In an essay based on their new book, Workforce Management senior editor Ed Frauenheim and his co-authors, Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer, say workplaces must be at once caring, exacting, and stirring in the emerging "Worthiness Era."
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Managers Must Enter the Coaching Box to Help Develop Their Team
If managers do not become skilled at coaching their employees, it is unlikely that they will be able to achieve sustainable long-term positive results for themselves or their organizations.
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Contingent Labor Contracts: Do It Right, Save Millions; Do It Wrong, Spend Millions
As the labor market becomes more global, contingent workforces will become even more strategic to an organization’s operations, thereby driving increased flexibility and the need for proactive management and automation.
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Report: Preparedness Lacking for Many Firms as Sept. 11 Anniversary Nears
One-third of companies report feeling well prepared for a potential threat or disaster, according to a recent poll by the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Basic Chemistry? Paid Internships Tend to Yield Full-Time Jobs
A recent study found that over half of student interns returned to their employers for permanent positions.
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Pro-Union Employee Trying to Organize Target Store Is Fired
About seven weeks after failing to persuade her colleagues to join a union, a Target worker is terminated from her $8-an-hour job. The union will seek to reverse her dismissal.
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OSHA to Strengthen Whistle-Blower Protections, Review Program
A provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that gives financial incentives to corporate whistle-blowers could result in headaches for corporate directors and officers.
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Should You Hire a Tech Manager?
Expert points out that HR generalists and recruitment professionals don't have the time to stay abreast of all of the tools, to learn technologies and the use of different systems and tools.
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High Demand for Executive-Level Talent Keeps Unemployment in C-suite Low
For HR professionals, education and experience are important, but companies are placing a premium on demonstrated accomplishments.
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Follow These Seven Steps to a Drama-Free Office
There are four primary drama roles that emerge most frequently in office settings: the Complainer, the Controller, the Cynic and the Caretaker. A good manager will use different strategies for different personality types, as there is no ‘one size fits all’ antidote for drama.
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Lawmakers Wrangle Over Labors Definition of Fiduciary in Retirement Plans
Labor Department officials say that extending the standard would better protect workers and retirees. Opponents contend that it would raise liability costs and force broker-dealers to abandon the individual retirement account market, leaving smaller investors without investment advice.
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Union Workers Filing Federal Complaint Over Heat Lamps at Chicago Hotel
Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corp., which runs the hotel, has already apologized for the incident, saying the decision ‘was not in line with our values or with our corporate policies.’
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Picking the Perfect Personality Assessment Tests Grow in Popularity
Personality assessments have been gaining popularity in the past decade, with a May 2011 study finding that more than 80 percent of the companies it surveyed employ some type of assessment either during the hiring process or when making talent management decisions internally.
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HHS, Labor Survey to Ask Employers About Wellness Programs
As part of the survey, 3,000 employers will be contacted to assess the prevalence and types of corporate wellness programs, as well as the use of employee incentives.
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Wisconsin to Review Health Savings Accounts for State Employees
State lawmakers approved legislation that revised the state’s tax law to follow the 2003 federal law that established HSAs and excludes HSA contributions from employees’ taxable income.
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Engaged Workers Boost Customer Service for State Pension Plan Members
Award application through an independent source helped analyze the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund’s operations and workforce to pinpoint areas that need improvement.
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Job Market Slowly Easing as College Grads Trade Books for Briefcases
Google, like thousands of companies both large and small, is finding their ‘great people’ on college campuses nationwide in bigger numbers than in the past two years, career counselors say. Certainly the recession hit hard across all campuses but the uptick in hiring has been noticeable, they add.
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Companies, Schools Look to Build High Schoolers Business Acumen
More companies also have set their sights on developing high school students’ inner business potential.
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Employers Recognizing Need for Benefits Appealing to Young and Old Workers
Since the economic downturn, employers say they’ve noticed more involvement in financial education from older workers approaching retirement and an increase in younger workers enrolling earlier in the plans.
