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Workforce News of the Week:
Directors Are Shocked (Shocked!) at Sky-High CEO Pay, Just Not at Their
Own Companies: Despite new SEC disclosure rules that were expected
to better explain to investors the pay mechanisms of top managers, the number
of directors who feel pay is out of control is about the same as last year.
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Bill Gates Wants Your Medical Records—Microsoft Boots Up Electronic Medical
Records Plan: Microsoft made its long-awaited entry into consumer
health care by unveiling an electronic personal health record platform designed
to be compatible with other health care technology.
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Year-Old Dossia Hits Restart Amid Legal Spat: Dossia, the organization
launched by five large employers last year to bring personal health records
to millions of employees, is showing that transforming the health care system
is harder than it looks.
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Can the UAW Take the Wheel and Steer Its Health Care Obligations to Workers
and Retirees?: For its proposed health care trust to work, the union
will have to change retiree behavior or reduce what it pays medical providers.
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Sponsors Seek More Support for Sexual Orientation Bill:
The Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination
based on sexual orientation, is being held up because it lacks enough support
in the House.
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Firms With More Women on Boards Perform Better Than Those That Don’t:
During the span of a study, Fortune 500 companies with the highest
percentage of women on their boards saw equity returns 53 percent higher
than companies with the fewest number of women on their boards.
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Tech Workers Generally Happy, but Stressed Out: The Dice Tech
Appeal Index measures a person’s inclination to recommend the IT field to
others as opposed to another industry.
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Job Boards Tap Facebook for Gen Y Workers
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Medicare Claims Data Ordered Released
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Health Care Cuts a Dicey Move for Retailer Pier 1
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Quick Takes:
IT Snoops Sneaking Peeks at Confidential Employee Data
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Simplifying Work May Frustrate, Demoralize Employees
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New Benefit: Paying Employees to Slim Down?
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Worker Grapevine Alive and Well
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Most Workers Believe Paychecks Are Error-Free
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First Monday
Feature: After the Buyout—HR's Rising Equity
The private equity boom may
have peaked, but one of its legacies is that investors recognize the value
of human resources execs who know their financials and can help overhaul
the workforce, revamp compensation and act as a mediator between unions
and the company’s new owners.
Read more about how HR deals with corporate private
equity buyouts. >>>
Also:
During the Buyout, HR Leaders Get Back to Basics
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HR's Top Earners: Field Marshals in the Talent
War >>>
Scholar Urges HR to Work With Schools>>>
GE's People Power: Conaty Made Jack Welch a Believer
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Rewards and incentives
Motivating Workers Worldwide
In today’s far-flung economy, companies need
to manage recognition globally while tailoring rewards for local markets.
Awards that are in line with business goals are the most likely to ensure
a substantial payoff, but organizations expecting immediate results may
be disappointed.
Read more about incentives.
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Also:
Rewards and ROI: A ‘Fuzzy Science’?
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Recognition That Resonates
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So Plastic: Gift Cards Are Most Popular Incentive>>>
Timing Is Everything: Learning to Say ‘Good Job’
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Discussion
Unstable Employee: ADA vs. Organizational Safety
Posted in the Legal Forum:
A reader writes: "I have an employee who is exhibiting severe paranoia.
One more performance corrective action and the employee will be termed.
The employee's manager is concerned about the safety of her other employees.
The employee states that they can read minds, knows that others are ‘up
to something’ and that they are being followed. I do not want to violate
ADA, but there are some serious concerns regarding the employee’s comments,
and safety issues for other employees. Has anyone been through a similar
dilemma? How did you handle it? Also, for the ADA experts out there, how
do ADA and employee safety coexist?"
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Blogs: Global Work Watch
Businesses and the Moscow Formula
Earlier this month,
government officials meeting in Russia hashed out something dubbed the “Moscow
Formula.” It sounds, at first glance, like a name for the plan to keep Vladimir
Putin powerful after his term limit as Russian president is reached.
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Workforce Washington
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Location, location, location
How Your ZIP Code Determines Your Employees’ Legal Rights
Sometimes, which
laws apply to employees and how the laws are interpreted by the courts is
more a function of your ZIP code than anything else.
Read more about location and employee legal rights.
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Also:
The Letter of the Law
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Calif. Harassment Act May Affect Out-of-State Managers
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Three Steps for Immunizing Your Company from Overtime
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