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• » Democratic Leaders Oppose Revising FMLA Regulations
  Labor officials say the regulations, which they want to implement by the end of the year, would make the law more user friendly for companies and employees. They also address rules for implementing expanded leave for military families.

• » Workstream Gains Merger Partner, Loses Board Member
  The software company has signed an agreement with a company that owns the Tesseract payroll application. A few days before the announcement, Stanford University business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer resigned from Workstream’s board.

• » Study: Rising Health Care Costs Gobbling Up Workers’ Take-Home Pay

• » High-Cost Workforce in Peril as GM Eyes Profitability in 2010

• » UAW Leader Pushes for National Health Plan

• » IBM Channels Workers to Public Sector

• » New York A.G. to Sue UnitedHealth Over Reimbursements

• » Hollywood Writers Vote to End Strike, But Business as Usual Is Unlikely

• » Employee Benefits Menu Boosted by Mix of Voluntary Options

• » N.Y. Fines Businesses $4 Million for Misclassified Hourly Workers

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Why Workers Are Stressing Out
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Washington and Hollywood's Latest Influence on the Office: Waterboarding
- from the Workforce Washington Blog

SAP Winning With A Great Workplace
- from the Global Work Watch Blog

CEO Pay and the ‘Corpocracy’
- from the Books@Work Blog

Should HR or Hiring Managers Handle the Offer Process?
- from featured blog: The HR Capitalist

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Avoid Hiring an HR Dud: Behavioral Interview Questions for Finding Stars
You don’t need an HR drone. You need stellar talent. And the best way to find it is through behavioral interviewing. Here are five questions focused on the competencies that separate the players from the pretenders.

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This new section contains excerpts from some of today’s best business books for human resources professionals and top workforce management executives.

Broken Windows, Broken Business
by Michael Levine
Chapter 2: Management Innovation in Action

Bridging the Generation Gap: How to Get Radio Babies, Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers to Work Together and Achieve More
by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Worksheet: calculating turnover costs

Talent IQ
by Emmett C. Murphy
Pages 237-252, Appendix B: The Global Demographics of Talent

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Connect with other HR professionals. Ask questions and exchange ideas—peer support is an excellent resource.

Succession Planning Questions
- posted in the Training & Organizational Development Forum
"A reader writes: “My organization is looking at establishing a formal succession planning process. Interested in hearing how others have addressed the questions below:

• How do you identify potential successors?

• How do you communicate with potential successors? (For example, not a guarantee of promotion.)

• How do you communicate with those not selected as successors as to why they were not selected?”"

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