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Workforce News of the Week:
Monster Still Dealing With Massive Security Breach: A week ago,
computer security firm Symantec announced that a piece of malicious software
known as a "Trojan" was trying to access Monster.com and upload data to
a remote computer.
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Bias Study Sees Few Gains for Female Leaders: Female business leaders
remain plagued by gender stereotyping, according to a new report. The study
says men are still viewed as "default leaders," while women are viewed as
"atypical leaders," with the perception that they violate accepted norms
of leadership.
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Review of Retiree Health Care Bias Ruling Denied: Experts predicted
that the threat of age discrimination charges would have resulted in employers
cutting benefits for younger retirees or eliminating retiree health care
programs.
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AARP to Appeal Retiree Health Benefits Case to Supreme Court: The
retiree organization will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a decision that
validates federal regulations allowing companies to provide different health
benefits to younger retirees and those eligible for Medicare.
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Big Paydays for Niche Job Sites May Enrich HR
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Survey: Health Premiums for Union Members Costlier
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N.Y. Attorney General Focuses on Health Plans' Doctor Rankings
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Court: Lost Pregnancy-Leave Credit Can Be Regained
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Why More Companies Look Elsewhere for CEO Talent
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FedEx Ground Continues Its Contractor Battle
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Final Dependent Care FSA Rules Issued
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Quick Takes:
Companies Putting Mask on Facebook
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Managers May Handicap, Not Help, Performance
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Think Tank to Congress: Staggering Sums Needed to Teach English to Immigrants
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Brits Loathe Colleagues
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Test-drive recruiting
Feature: Temp-to-Perm Trend Still Strong
The number of temporary workers
retained as full-time employees is expected to grow by 15 percent this year.
By using the temp-to-hire approach, companies can try out potential permanent
hires without the costs associated with an immediate full-time hire.
Read more about the temp-to-perm market.
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Also:
Rethinking Temp-to-Perm
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A Focus on Long-Term Careers in the Contingent
World >>>
Temp-to-Hire Is Becoming a Full-Time Practice at
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Global workforce report: India
Feature: India's New Bargain
Workforce Management staff writer
Jeremy Smerd recently traveled to India to report on the changing nature
of workforce management issues in a nation that has become nearly synonymous
with outsourcing. This three-part series examines how India's outsourcing
industry is evolving.
Part 2: Recruiters in India Put Out the Call to American Workers
Because filling temporary, hourly jobs can be a low-margin business,
some recruiters have turned to the Indian workforce to handle the work and
increase their profits.
Read more about recruiting and staffing in India.
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Also:
Future Shock
India's college system is suffering from a deficit in instructors with Ph.D.s,
which threatens to derail the country's plan for a higher-tech outsourcing
future. "What has happened in Indian education is that everybody is busy
plucking the fruit off the trees and no one is planting the trees," one
expert says.
Offshoring Etiquette According to Ritu and Rajan
There are several cultural rules to note that will keep relations with your
India-based workforce humming right along.
Part 1: Rising in the East
As India's outsourcing industry moves into performing higher-level work,
companies are confronting formidable workforce challenges and waging a battle
of hearts and minds to convince their overseas clients that they can be
critical business partners.
Read more about India's evolving workforce.
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Also:
Breaking the Taboo of Firing >>>
Firms Ratchet Up Efforts to Boost Security
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The Right Profile for Worker Loyalty >>>
Fast Track Greets Indian Returnees >>>
'Bench' Warmers Often Lack Experience >>>
Podcasts
India's New Bargain: Podcasts
Hear Workforce Management
staff writer Jeremy Smerd's audio reports about the Indian workforce.
All podcasts open MP3 files compatible with QuickTime or iTunes.
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Podcast page. >>>
Also:
PODCAST: India's New Bargain, Series Overview
India's New Bargain―Series overview. Workforce Management staff writer Jeremy Smerd outlines his reporting trip to India and the lessons he learned for
the American workforce.
PODCAST: India's New Bargain, Episode 1
Prabhi Jha, head of human resources at Indian drugmaker Dr. Reddy's
Laboratories, discusses recruiting and retention in one of the world's tightest
labor markets.
PODCAST: India's New Bargain, Episode 2
Rajan Bhandari, senior manager, iGate Global Solutions, and Ritu Aurora,
a division head of learning and development, discuss Indian cultural etiquette.
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Discussion
Dock Pay for Goofing Off on the Job?
Posted in the Legal Forum:
A reader writes: "I'm in charge of the payroll for my company. My boss recently
discovered that two of our employees were spending (sometimes several) hours
a day playing solitaire when they should have been working. She wants to
dock their hourly wages for those hours spent playing solitaire. Can she
do this? The employees are nonexempt hourly."
Join the discussion.
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Blogs: New functions, new blog
Workforce Management Launches Revised Blogs, Global
Work Blog
With this issue of
Workforce Week, Workforce Management launches revised formats
for its blogs Workforce Washington, by Washington correspondent
Mark Schoeff Jr. and the Business of Management, by our editor,
John Hollon. Both blogs now have fully functioning blog features including
comments and trackbacks. In addition, we are pleased to introduce Global Work Watch by San Francisco-based reporter Ed Frauenheim.
Global Work Watch will focus on workforce management issues worldwide and
is an outgrowth of Frauenheim's China Matters blog, which accompanied his
special section on China published earlier this year. Thank you for reading
our new blogs and Workforce Week.
Read the Global Work Watch blog.
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Read the Business of Management blog.
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Read the Workforce Washington blog.
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The Last Word
Silencing the Alarmists
The forecasted labor
shortage is at best a demographic ripple, and not the giant tidal wave people
claim is out there.
Read more about whether a labor shortage is looming.
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Also:
Retirements? No Problem, Say Companies
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Face of the Future: The Aging Workforce
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Age Wave: Adapting to Older Workers
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