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	June 17 - 23, 2007 Vol. 8 Issue 25

In This Issue ...

Workforce News of the Week
Feature: Patients Wary of Personal Health Records

Feature: Task Force Training—Developing Leaders, Solving Issues,
Cutting Costs

Feature: Recruiting in Tijuana

Forum Post: Teamwork

Blog: 5 Books You Should Read This Summer

Commentary: HR ‘Hate' Endures


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Workforce News of the Week:

Dems Looking to Reverse Justices' Limits on Pay Claims: In a controversial pay discrimination case handed down last month, the Supreme Court majority asserted that Congress intended to strictly limit the time period in which a claim could be filed. Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to advance bills to overturn the ruling.
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Workforces Will Hold Steady in the Third Quarter:
Seven percent of employers in Manpower's quarterly outlook survey said they expect to cut payrolls this summer. Twenty-nine percent said they'll be hiring. More than half are holding the line with their current headcount.
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ACS, Ceridian Might Be Back in Play for Bidding: The board of directors is ‘considering strategic alternatives available to the company, including a potential sale of the company, that it considers to be in the best interest of the company and its stockholders.'
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President Clinton: Employers Must Do More to Fight AIDS Globally
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Death and Pensions: Treasury Proposes New Rules
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Quick Takes:
Want a Good Raise? Go to China
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20-Hour Workweek Is Near, Research Finds
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Retailers Check Out Workforce Software
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Organizations Look to Get Personal in '07
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Are they really private?
Feature: Patients Wary of Employer- and Plan-Sponsored Personal Health Records

So far, the public has yet to embrace the records, in part because the main push to promote them has been from health plans and employers. A recent survey found that 52 percent of the respondents were worried about employers using medical information to limit job opportunities.

Training
Feature: Task Force Training Develops New Leaders, Solves Real Business Issues and Helps Cut Costs

South of the border
Recruiting in Tijuana is a Qualifind Success

Tijuana, Mexico, is home to more than 600 ‘maquiladoras,' and those plants are on something of a recruiting spree. Cross-border recruiting firm Qualifind is helping international employers working in this border region recruit qualified professionals.

Discussion
Teamwork

Posted in the Work Views Forum:

A reader writes: "There are three supervisors and one manager in our large loan documentation department at our bank. Two of the supervisors, myself included, cannot seem to get along with the third supervisor. She tends to micromanage her unit and tries to micromanage ours as well. She refuses to help us with our work when we need it. She puts on airs that she is better than the others and our work is beneath her. We have gotten into a pretty big tiff about how each department is being supervised. The manager of the unit is trying very hard to get us to work this through ourselves. My question is this: I want to have all of us get along. What can I do to get this to happen?"

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Blog
The Business of Management: 5 Books You Should Read This Summer

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, it's time to get the summer reading lined up. If you want to multitask and combine your reading with an opportunity to glean some great management wisdom, here are five books you should put on the top of your summer reading list.

The Last w\Word
HR ‘Hate' Endures

A new Deloitte/Economist survey of corporate leaders is another indicator that when it comes to HR, something needs to change.

The Last Word
Not All Turnover Is Equal

Measuring and reporting turnover might seem simple, but that is because most organizations report only on aggregate turnover, a generic measure that can be very misleading. While aggregate turnover adequately shows the number of positions vacated, it does not account for some turnover being positive, some negative and some catastrophic.

The Turnover Myth >>>

The First 3 Things That HR Should Measure >>>

15 Ways to Help HR Generalists Measure Up >>>