Small business workers in at least 15 states and the District of Columbia may have a menu of health insurance choices next year, something that didn’t seem … Read more
New Year, Old Message: 2014 Salary Increases Will Be Around 3% — Again
Waiting for that big raise to finally come through now that the economy seems to be slowly, gradually improving? Well, you might need to bit a little … Read more
SHRM Announces Partnership With CHRO-Focused HR Organization
The world’s largest HR organization and its smaller counterpart targeted to senior-level human resource leaders have announced a partnership that … Read more
Teen Hiring: Another Indication of How Weak the Economic Recovery Is
A summer job used to be one of those rites of passage for teenagers. Like moving from middle school to high school, and Pop Warner to varsity, working at … Read more
Is Obesity a Workplace Disability? One Court Bucks the Trend and Says No
By Eric B. Meyer In mid-June, the American Medical Association concluded that obesity is a disease “requiring a range of medical interventions to … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Despite Employee Optimism, It’s Still a Buyer’s Market For Talent
Sometimes people tell me I’m just too negative for constantly referring to the post recession economic recovery as “mediocre.” I know; … Read more
June Job Growth Better Than Expected, But Unemployment Still at 7.6%
The U.S. economy created 195,000 new jobs last month, well above economists estimates and breaking the summer hiring slowdown that has bedeviled the … Read more
StagNation Means Challenges and Uncertainty For Employers & Employees
By Cash Nickerson If you were to ask me what the most damaging impact on employers is today, I would say uncertainty. At first it was the recession, then … Read more
A Growing Problem: Recent Grads Have a 38.7% “Mal-employment” Rate
Professor Andrew Sum from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Boston’s Northeastern University has done a great deal of research on the effect of … Read more
Employer Mandate to Provide Health Care Postponed Until 2015
Employers that were worried about how they would be able to handle the implementation of health care reform starting in January have one less thing to … Read more