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  The settlement is the biggest award ever obtained by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of an individual in a racial discrimination case.

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• » EEOC Issues Rule on Retiree Health Benefits

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COMMENTARY: Dave Ulrich
The New HR Organization
Increasingly diversified businesses require more complex human resources operations, Dave Ulrich contends. Here, the author and consultant breaks down the roles today's HR departments must fulfill to deliver value.

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COMMENTARY: Alan Rupe
Lessons From Plaintiffs' University
Employees trained at "PU" invariably dodge their responsibility for prompt reporting of harassment by framing their lack of understanding of the policy in such a way that their failure to complain somehow becomes reasonable.

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“Our company received an outrageously high increase for our health insurance renewal for 2008—the highest I've seen in eight years! In election years, we typically see smaller increases. I'm wondering if companies across the board are seeing much higher increases this year?”

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