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VOLUNTEERISM
Appealing to Workers' Civic Side
By Michelle V. Rafter
Firms find that participating in service events not only burnishes their image in cities where they do business, but also helps improve employee morale, recruitment and retention.
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LABOR RELATIONS
GM’s New CEO Meets With UAW Leaders, Says Let’s Work Together
September 3, 2010 9:55 AM CT
After the meeting at UAW headquarters in Detroit, Daniel Akerson said the leaders concluded that ‘while we will not always see eye to eye on everything, GM will succeed to the extent that management and labor work together.’
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REDUCTIONS LIKELY
Survey: U.K. Firms May Cut Benefits Under New Pension Law
September 1, 2010 8:40 AM CT
In June, the recently elected U.K. coalition government said it was conducting a review to determine how best to support the implementation of automatic enrollment into company pension plans.
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The Ethical Workplace
Former EEOC trial attorney Stephen M. Paskoff writes about ethical and legal issues on the job, and how to build respectful and inclusive workforce cultures.
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As one of the largest and complex business expenses in organizations today, compensation and its interconnectivity to performance management remains key to organizational success—in an economic environment that continues to shift. Download the Best Practices in Compensation white paper to learn more about new strategies in effective pay-for-performance models and road-tested incentive programs designed to outperform the competition in this global market—relevant content that matters.
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Consultants urge firms to use social media for benefits communications, but a survey finds that three-quarters of employees aren't interested in receiving the information from their employers via such sites as Facebook and Twitter.
With all the news about IPOs, there's a secret about their success that has not been widely shared: Human resource management makes the difference between life and death at these organizations.
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Work or 'Fun'
A member writes: "Has anyone ever had a supervisor authorize an employee to go to a function for CEU's in their field, not pay for the travel or the CEU class, but allow them to not have to take PTO for the time out? We have a supervisor that just did this and we are all scratching our heads on how to handle. Do the two go hand in hand, if it is work, is it work and the company should pay for the seminar, travel and compensate the employee with paid time for such, OR can you really strike a deal and break it into parts?"
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Use applicant tracking to force applicants to use your website, eliminate phone numbers, set up a blind number solely for your recruiters, and run more blind ads.
Several important steps can help you get started. Despite the recession, now is actually a great time to ramp up your campus recruiting.
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With the use of temps and other contingent workers on the rise, more companies are adopting software to control labor costs and better manage this segment of their workforces.
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