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	September 2- 8, 2007 Vol. 8 Issue 36

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Workforce News of the Week
Feature: Managing in the Heat Takes a Lot of Planning ... and Water

Feature: India’s New Bargain: Indian Military an Ideal Training Ground for Business

Feature: India’s New Bargain: Podcasts

Forum Post: Time Management

Blog: Workforce Management Launches Redesigned Blogs

The HR Capitalist: Does Your Company Need More Ditch Diggers, or Stars?


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Workforce News of the Week:

DHS ‘No-Match’ Immigration Rule Rankles Employer Groups: The rule puts a new legal onus on employers to verify immigration status. Companies say that the verification crackdown will disrupt the labor market and snare legal workers.
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Auto Industry Cutbacks Spur White-Collar Talent Crunch: When former Home Depot head Robert Nardelli arrived in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on August 6 to take over as Chrysler’s CEO, he reiterated the company’s plan to cut 13,000 jobs as efficiently as possible.
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IRS Will Tax 401(k) Savings Used to Buy Retiree Health Coverage: The IRS, in its proposed rules, says Congress has ‘carefully and strictly limited the ability to prefund’ health care benefits on a tax-favored basis.
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Scrutiny Over 401(k) Expenses Heats Up in D.C.: A recent legislative proposal that would require 401(k) retirement plans to reveal more information about fees is being described as the beginning of a discussion about the issue. But in Washington, the scrutiny surrounding costs is becoming a low roar.
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Percentage of Workers Covered by Employer-Supplied Health Insurance Declines: The Census Bureau reports that the percentage of people covered by employer-based health insurance decreased in 2006 to 59.7 percent, compared with 60.2 percent in 2005, a factor contributing to the rise in the number of uninsured throughout the population.
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Cuts at Monster Not Expected to Hamper Service
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Union Urges Auditors to Dig Deeper for Exec Options Excesses
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Hewitt Acquires Middle-Market Health Benefits Administrator
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Quick Takes:
Exempt Pay Flat, But Some Execs Are Cleaning Up in ’07
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Workers Going Where Jobs Are
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Ho-Hum in HR
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Staffing Firms Stock Up
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Soaking up the sun
Feature: Managing in the Heat Takes a Lot of Planning ... and Water

The practices aren’t new or revolutionary: drink water, alternate work and rest periods, wear protective clothing and sunscreens, and schedule work at night or early in the morning when it’s cooler.

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 3: India’s Military an Ideal Training Ground for Business
Approximately 60,000 army personnel retire every year; 3,000 are officers, most of them in their mid-50s, according to numbers provided by the Indian Ministry of Defence. This means many are in the prime of their working lives, retiring with an abundance of experience that they can ply in the private sector.
Read more about how India’s military supplies business with managers. >>>

Also:
HR Evolves in India
Many of today’s HR executives in India got their start in manufacturing. Tomorrow’s executives will have been raised in the bosom of the high-tech industry. Each generation brings a different skill set to India’s ever-changing work world.

Recruiters Turn to India’s Classifieds
Parents give particular emphasis to the letters MNC—which stand for ‘multinational corporation.’

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. >>>

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. >>>

Also:
Breaking the Taboo of Firing >>>
Firms Ratchet Up Efforts to Boost Security >>>
The Right Profile for Worker Loyalty >>>
Fast Track Greets Indian Returnees >>>
'Bench' Warmers Often Lack Experience >>>

Podcasts
India's New Bargain

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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Also:
PODCAST: 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.

PODCAST: India's New Bargain, Episode 3
Ameet Nivsarker, vice president at Nasscom, the Indian software industry group, explains why outsourcing to India does not take away from American jobs.

PODCAST: India's New Bargain, Episode 4
The outsourcing boom has transformed HR in India. Ameet Nivsarker, vice president at Nasscom, the Indian software industry group, explains how this happened.

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Discussion
Time Management

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A reader writes: "Please help. I am still very new to HR. I work as an HR assistant/generalist. Since being hired four months ago my duties have increased by 25 percent. I am struggling now with time management. Trying to respond to e-mails, do benefits, 401(k), recruit/reviewing résumés and apps and etc. ... I have completely lost myself. I love HR and I want to excel in this profession. Any thoughts or ideas that will help me better management my time?"

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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.

A Chinese Law With Lessons for America
Read the Global Work Watch blog. >>>

‘Don’t We Get Enough Stupid Behavior From Britney and Paris?’
Read the Business of Management blog. >>>

Hillary’s Workplace Views Might Not Agree With Business
Read the Workforce Washington blog. >>>

The HR Capitalist
Does Your Company Need More Ditch Diggers, or Stars?

The ditch digger is the steady, unspectacular performer who gets the job done, but isn’t necessarily asking for more responsibility or looking for the fast track up the org chart.