September 16 - 22, 2007
Vol. 8 Issue 38
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Workforce News of the Week:
Kaiser Says Health Care Costs Slow as Employer Benefits Erode: Annual
survey details how employer-sponsored coverage is changing for the 158 million
Americans who receive their health insurance through their employers.
Hewitt, Mercer Play Up Everything They Can Do
Countrywide 401(k) Participants Sue
Delphi to Freeze Pension Plans
Restless and Unhealthy
High on the Job
Keep All the Attorneys?
Loyalty and Hiring
Health care With a few years of experience under their belts, employers and health plans are adjusting their consumer-driven health plan offerings in an attempt to make them more attractive to plan sponsors and employees.
Read more about fine-tuning consumer-driven health
plans. >>>
On the front line
A quintet of 2006's highest-paid HR leaders
discuss how they are confronting myriad talent management challenges as
well as obstacles to being viewed by their organizations as strategic business
partners. |
Unions
When Pigs Fly: New Symbol of Union Protest
During the past several months,
labor organizers in New York City have been introducing the “greedy pig”
balloon to employers at their work sites. The 12-foot-tall balloon portrays
a sneering creature decked out in a top hat and suit, chomping on a cigar.
Read more about union protests.
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Also:
U.S. Unions Act Globally, Benefit Locally
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Senate Likely to Squelch Unionization Legislation>>>
Dear Workforce: How Do We Reduce the
Chance Our Employees Will Unionize? >>>
Discussion
Advice on Relocation
Posted in the General Forum:
A reader writes: "We hired an employee and offered to pay for her relocation
costs. Our contracted moving company picked up her belongings and moved
them, and we paid for those costs. Unfortunately, while she was driving
out here to start work, she got into a terrible car accident and was disabled.
The moving company put her items into storage for her while she was recovering.
She withdrew her acceptance of the position as she can no longer physically
work in this position and has since moved back home to pursue other opportunities.
She now is requesting to get her belongings out of storage and shipped back
to her home (on the other side of the country). I think we should pick up
the tab on these items due to the situation; however, my director is unsure
if the full cost should be paid entirely by us. Do you think the individual
should be responsible for any of these costs? What advice do you have?"
Blogs: The Business of Management
Why Flex Work Makes Sense
The whole notion
of flexible work arrangements—letting employees work where they want and
how they want—is a smart idea that is finally starting to take hold. We’ve
written about it several times here at Workforce Management,
and earlier this year we gave our 2007 Optimas
Award
for Innovation to Best Buy for a program developed
with
CultureRx that drives better business results by getting rid of
the traditional rules of work and letting employees decide how they can
best get their job done
Global Work Watch
Read the Global Work Watch blog.
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The Business of Management
Read the Business of Management blog.
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Workforce Washington
Read the Workforce Washington blog.
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Dave Ulrich
The Talent Trifecta
The best talent comes
down to three essential ingredients: competence, commitment and contribution.
Organizations must cultivate all three in their employees, for if any of
them goes missing, the talent equation falls apart.
Read more about the talent trifecta.
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Also:
Has HR Finally Arrived?
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Leading Well Is Simple
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Do You Think Like an Investor?
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