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Workforce News of the Week:
Worker Fired After Revealing He Previously Had ‘Superbug’
A Florida man who was fired last month may be the first American employee
to lose his job for having had a drug-resistant bacterial infection that
is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in the U.S. each year.
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Wachovia to Recruiters: Let’s Make a Deal
Wachovia Securities, in a move to hang on to as many brokers as possible
in its merger with A.G. Edwards & Sons, is attempting to woo independent
recruiters with a lucrative offer to encourage them to stop picking off
Edwards’ reps and moving them to rival broker-dealers.
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Latest Monster Attack Targets Employers
The November hacking, which involved Best Buy, Eddie Bauer and Toyota Financial
Services, follows an attack in August in which hackers broke into Monster’s
database and stole the records of more than 1 million users.
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Workers Opting Out of Employer Health Coverage
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Jet Engine Maker Asks to Fund Benefits Via In-House Insurance Business
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Business Groups Make Progress on Two Immigration Fronts
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More Health Insurers Adopt Doctor Ranking Model
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Corporate Governance Watchdog to Focus on Exec Compensation, Disclosure
in 2008
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Most Employers Ease Company Stock Requirements
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Pension Bill Technical Corrections Likely to Live Up to Name
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MBA Case Competition Puts Spotlight on HR Strategy
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Quick Takes:
Talent Management Plagued by Confusion, Internal Competition
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HR Punishes Web Surfers, but Doesn’t Flag Abuses
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Texas Officials: No Need to Reward Longtime Service
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Whistle-Blowers ‘Vindicated’: Fed Probing Head Start Allegations
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Special report
Feature: Global Workforce Report: Emerging Markets
As the global options for site
location broaden outside traditional offshore centers, workforce management
executives face complex issues that move well beyond simple labor costs.
Read more about emerging markets.
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Also:
Global, Local Players Split on Labor Strategy
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The Science of Site Selection
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Brazil Seeks Outsourcing Dominance
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The Philippines Vying to Become the Next India
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The Great Global Talent Race: One World, One Workforce
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Rising in the East
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HR technology
Feature: Oracle’s Fusion at the Fore
Oracle’s much-anticipated project
to blend the best of various software product lines into a new set of applications
is approaching some key tests. 2008 is the year Oracle has pledged to start
delivering its Fusion applications, which are slated to include human resources
software.
Read more about Oracle’s Fusion. >>>
Also:
A Glimpse of Fusion
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Fusion One of Many Irons in Oracle’s Fire
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Oracle Is Hungry Again
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HR Tech Battle Goes to Court
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Can Fusion Bring It All Together for Oracle?
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Oracle's Fusion Formula
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Niche Players Swoop In as Oracle Tends to PeopleSoft
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Discussion
HR's Reputation
Posted in the Legal Forum:
A reader writes: "I’m just curious to know how your organization treats
HR. Do the managers listen to the advice you give them? Are they resistant
to work with you? Do you ever feel like you are looked at as the bad guy
from members of management who don't even know what you do and the importance
of what you do? I am just wondering because it's like that for me at my
office. We have several locations and each location has one HR generalist.
The manager here does a lot of things without me (terminations/write-up/employment
relation issues). How do I let this manager know that he needs to follow
policy when dealing with certain issues without sounding like the bad guy?"
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Blogs: The Business of Management
HR on Trial
In all the never-ending talk about HR finally
getting that long sought-after seat at the table comes this word of warning:
High-level jobs have some high-level risks.
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Contributing blogger
The HR Capitalist
Workplace Poll: Men Need More Pats on the Head Than Women
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Workforce Washington
Democrats Border on Frustration With Immigration Policy
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Global Work Watch
Manpower’s Power in China
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NEW BLOG
Books@Work
Ever wonder if there is anything
good in the mountain of business books published every year? Workforce
Management’s new Books@Work blog reviews and previews all manner
of workforce management-focused books, including those on topics like employee
leadership, workforce dynamics, the HR profession, corporate culture, legal
issues and management. We also point you to classic books you might have
missed, as well as books that are not your typical management tomes but
still have something thoughtful or interesting to say about workforce concerns.
The blog is written by the editors and reporters of Workforce Management.
The inaugural blog posts features reviews of two books,
The Power of Belonging and
Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives.
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The Last Word
Search Google for Top HR Practices
If you expect your HR function
to make a major bottom-line contribution, comparing yourself to the world’s
first true ‘talent machine’ is essential.
Read more about Google and HR.
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Also:
Résumés: Paper, Please
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When HR Becomes CSI
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Not All Turnover Is Equal
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Thoughts on HR and Creating a Culture of Innovation
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