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Workforce News of the Week:
Kronos to Jump Into Corporate Recruiting: In another sign the recruiting
software market is heating up, HR applications firm Kronos plans next week
to announce it will sell a recruiting product for salaried positions.
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Monster Security Worries Widen: Nearly 150,000 users of a federal
government job site for which Monster provides technology have been affected
by malicious software. The scope of a larger data breach revealed last month
at the Internet job site is "impossible to pinpoint," Monster says.
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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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Halt of DHS No-Match Rule Provides Employers No I-9 Reprieve: The
Department of Homeland Security rule was to be implemented on September
14, but a federal judge halted mailing "no-match letter" packets from the
Social Security Administration that were to include DHS guidance on the
new rule.
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UnitedHealth Inks $13 Million Settlement With States
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More Women, Young Workers on the Move
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Foundations Foster Public-Private Effort to Develop Workers
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All I Want for Labor Day Is Great Health Care
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Quick Takes:
U.S. Workers Rely on Each Other, Not Managers
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Mixed Signals on U.S. Worker Contentment
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Seven of 10 Execs Play Games at Work
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Why Are They Firing? Bad Hiring
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Most CEOs Get Help With Financial Planning
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Special Report
Feature: Retirement Benefits: The Default Dilemma
A year after pension reform
eased concerns about automatically enrolling workers in 401(k)s, employers
are still grappling with which investment options to use in their plans.
Here, Workforce Management sorts out the positives and negatives
of the Department of Labor's qualified alternatives, as well as stable-value
funds.
Read more about the default dilemma.
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Also:
The Fight Over QDIA
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Employer and Employee Groups Protest IRS Call on
Cash-Balance Pension Conversions >>>
Latest 401(k) Feature: Debit Card to Tap Retirement
Savings >>>
International
China's Contract Law: Something for Everyone
The statute, which goes into effect in January,
has significant benefits for employers as well as workers and unions. But
more important, it may finally bring uniform labor practices to China's
booming economy.
Read more about new Chinese labor laws.
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Also:
The Union-Free Good Times May Be Over in China
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Why China Matters
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Firms Still Fond of Foreigners in China
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Sports
Are You Ready for Some (Fantasy) Football? Your Employees
Probably Are
Employers have some choices
in how to deal with fantasy football. They can decide to take a hard-line
"old school" approach, or they can try to be more flexible and accommodate
their employees' fixation.
Read more about dealing with fantasy football in
the workplace. >>>
Also:
When Workers Wager, Does Production Slip?
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Employees Face Their Demons During Intense Executive
Interventions >>>
Addressing the Business Cost of Alcohol Problems
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Discussion
Wellness Program Ideas
Posted in the Benefits & Compensation
Forum:
A reader writes: "I am looking for 'wellness ideas' and healthy options
(i.e., walking clubs, fruit at lunch). We are trying to put together some
ideas. If you would share what your company does or has done I would be
very interested. Thank you."
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Blogs: New functions, new blog
Workforce Management Launches Revised Blogs, Global
Work Blog
Workforce Management
has launched redesigned 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.
Global Work Watch
Recent post: A Lingua Franca With Little to Fear
A funny thing about globalization is the way it is propelling the rise of
new economic powers in the developing world even as it entrenches a language
of the developed world.
Read the Global Work Watch blog.
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The Business of Management
Recent post:
IBM's Better Idea: Vacation on Demand
For most managers, tracking workers' vacations is a thankless and frequently
frustrating exercise. If you don't stay on top of it and actively manage
the process, you may end up with half your staff panicking around Thanksgiving
when they discover they'll lose all the time they don't take before the
year runs out.
Read the Business of Management blog.
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Workforce Washington
Recent post:
Business Group Sends 82 Theses to
DHS Regarding No-Match Letter Regulation
An employer group seeking to delay new Department of Homeland Security immigration
regulations has taken a page out of Martin Luther's book.
Read the Workforce Washington blog.
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The Last Word
When HR Becomes CSI
HR can take some
lessons from a wildly popular television show—CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation—to develop methodologies for uncovering what's killing
success in an organization.
Read more about how to uncover success killers.
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Also:
A Step Ahead of Trouble
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HR's No. 1 Priority: Profit
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Why VPs of HR Don't Become CEOs
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