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Workforce News of the Week:
Scant Planning for Mid-Manager Retirements
While employers are increasingly aware of the developing talent shortage
caused by baby boomers retiring, at this point few companies are taking
meaningful steps to deal with it at the critical middle-management level.
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Labor Is Restless in the Big Apple
More labor unrest is on tap in New York City as workers want a bigger piece
of the pie. Managers fear a slowing economy.
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OSHA Safety Equipment Standard Done
After nearly nine years, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
has issued a final rule that says employers will have to pay the full cost
for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers.
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Clinton Measure Calls for Better Pay, Training for Child Care Workers
People who provide child care for 12 million youngsters each week often
can't afford such programs for their own kids, according to advocates seeking
to increase pay and training for the social workers.
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Delay, Dropped Charges in Ex-Brocade HR Chief's Backdating Case
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Security Guard Union Blasts JetBlue
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Critics Wary of Target-Date Funds Despite DOL Approval
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Watson Wyatt Opens Office in Dubai
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Taleo, AIRS Team Up to Source Job Candidates
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SuccessFactors IPO Successful
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MBA Case Competition Puts Spotlight on HR Strategy
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Quick Takes:
French Hiss: Probe of Staffing Firms Deepens
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Blame the Manager: Poor Performers Lack Supervision
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Retirement No Longer Golden
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Workers Driven to Work—Even When Not Driving to Work
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Compensation
Feature: Companies Open Up Once-Taboo Talk of Pay Scale
From small businesses to multinational
firms, companies are tweaking workforce strategies so highly sought candidates
understand their total rewards.
Read more about understanding total rewards.
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Also:
Money Won't Buy You Love
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Web Access Transforms Compensation Surveys
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Performance Culture Starts in the Boss's Office
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Communicating Beyond Ratings Can Be Difficult
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Recruiting
Special Report: Burnishing Your Employment Brand
Employers' efforts to market
themselves as desirable places to work will go for naught if they do not
first understand their own cultural strengths and weaknesses and what they
can offer top-flight job candidates that their rivals cannot.
Read more about burnishing your employment brand.
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Also:
Selling Employee Passion
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Overhauling an Old Brand
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Lubrizol's Two-Track Approach
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GE's People Power: Conaty Made Jack Welch a Believer
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IBM's People Chief: A Leader in Leadership
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Discussion
Negligence vs. Privacy
Posted in the Legal Forum:
A reader writes: "I currently have a situation where a temporary employee
that we'd made a conditional offer to failed his pre-employment drug test.
This person is working with dangerous materials, and in dangerous situations.
Clearly, we don't want the individual working with us, and we will be letting
the agency he came from know that we no longer need his services. But, I
am concerned that we may have some responsibility to alert the agency since
this person is working with such dangerous materials (and they have their
own drug use policies and testing). However, I know that legally we shouldn't
disclose any of this confidential information to anyone. Has anyone faced
a situation like this before?"
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Blogs: The Business of Management
'Tis the Season for Stupid Job-Hunting
Tips
My e-mail contained a well-meaning press release
from a recruiting Web site touting "several tips to help find a job during
the holidays." Sounds like a good idea, no?
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Contributing blogger
The HR Capitalist
Circuit City Says: We Fired You; Care to Come Back for Less Money?
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Workforce Washington
Democrats Border on Frustration With Immigration Policy
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Global Work Watch
Industrial Policy No Joke
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Commentary
Rethinking the Company Match
A recent paper outlines potential
reasons that companies may want to reconsider offering a 401(k) match.
Read more about rethinking the company match.
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Also:
More Companies Restore 401(k) Matches
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How Employees Allocate Their 401(k)s
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Silencing the Alarmists
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A Tepid Reception for Annuities as 401(k) Payouts
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