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	July 1 - 7, 2007 Vol. 8 Issue 27

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Workforce News of the Week
Feature: A Higher Standard for Managers

Feature: No Minor Mistake—Doctor's Error, Your Expense

Feature: Explaining Executives' Dim View of HR

Forum Post: Dependent Verification

Blog: 'Social Work and Transactional HR Voodoo'

Commentary: Dave Ulrich Asks, Has HR Finally Arrived?


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Workforce News of the Week:

Veterans Job Boards Seek Federal Probe of Monster-DOD Deal: The military-focused job boards want to know why the contract was allotted to Monster without holding an open bidding process, which would have enabled them to compete.
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Employers Lash Out at Moore's 'Sicko' Agenda: Like a growing number of employer groups, filmmaker Michael Moore says he wants to fix America's $2 trillion health care system. But that's where the similarity ends.
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Immigration Reform Dies in Senate; Dems Vow Revival: House probably won't move ahead with its own bill. Republican opposition is fierce in that chamber to a path toward legalization for the some 12 million undocumented workers.
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Unions Question Private Equity Firm Buyouts
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More Pension Plans Look at Governance, Study Says
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Quick Takes:
To Every Season, Churn, Churn, Churn
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Turn Out the Bright: Experts Struggling to Keep Best and Brightest
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Drinking After Work? Performance Could Rise, Employees Say
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Quiet, I'm Trying Not to Work
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Dice Set to Roll on IPO
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Special report
Feature: Rebranding: SHRM, HR Reach for New Identity

The Society for Human Resource Management is looking to cast the profession in a new light. SHRM officials and others in the field can hardly wait to get rid of the old administrative image.

Read more about SHRM's rebranding. >>>

Also:
Group Embraces Its Inner 'Sherm,' Sets New Goals >>>
HR, Workers Split on What Fuels Job Satisfaction >>>

Read Workforce Management's complete show daily coverage of the 2007 SHRM Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas. (These links require Acrobat.)
SHRM Show Daily Tuesday, June 26 >>>
SHRM Show Daily Monday, June 25 >>>
SHRM Show Daily Sunday, June 24 >>>

Click here to listen to a special SHRM edition of the Workforce Management podcast. This link opens an mp3 audio file.

A conversation With ...
Feature: Richard Branson on His Plans for a Healthier Workforce

The Virgin Group founder and chairman took his global brand into the U.S. health care market in 2006 when he launched Virgin Life Care, which offers programs for employers to give incentives--free movie tickets, music, clothing--to employees who live healthy lifestyles.
Read the conversation with Branson. >>>

Also:
The Importance of Being Richard Branson >>>
You Can't Tell the Health Care Proposals and Players Without a Scorecard >>>

Listen to a Workforce Management podcast: Safeway CEO Steven Burd talks about health care reform in this exclusive Workforce Management interview. This link opens an mp3 audio file.

Shifting law
The Independent Contractor Question

The use of independent contractors in place of employees has been on the rise in the U.S. for years and continues to stir debate over its impact on worker protections. Congress has recently taken a renewed interest in the subject, with one representative calling the misclassification of employees as contract workers "a national problem.”

Discussion
Employee birthdays

Posted in the General Forum:

A reader writes: "We have a small staff of only 12 people in a nonprofit organization with no funding for any kind of employee recognition. We have a fund that staff contributes to so we can purchase air freshener and kitchen soap. Anyway, how do other similar groups deal with the purchase of cake and with folks who don't want their birthday celebrated? It seems there are always hurt feelings."

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Blog
Another Airline, Another Meltdown

Whatever happened to the notion of shared sacrifice, of workers and management both sharing in the pain and hardship it takes to get a money-losing business back on track? Well, the concept is a good one, but at Northwest Airlines, it seems to be at the core of all that is wrong with the business right now.

Workplace legal issues
The Letter of the Law

Everyone wondered if the new Supreme Court would be pro-employer or pro-employee. But as it turns out, ‘strict constructionism’ is the court’s point north.