What Are Today's College Graduates Looking For?
You need the talent & creativity brought by recent college graduates, especially when you take into consideration the looming employment gap occurring as Baby Boomers retire.

What Should HR's Role Be in the 21st Century?
Human resources long-term planning no longer works because the pace of change is increasingly complex and unpredictable.

Perk Place: The Benefits Offered by Google and Others May Be Grand, but They're All Business
Companies want to create both an appealing environment to attract and retain employees and make people feel they belong, but they also want to increase productivity.

Gadgets at Work
Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers entering the workplace, lower technology costs and the need to innovate quickly using web applications.

Most Employers Voluntarily Offer Time Off to Vote
Whether workers are entitled to take time off from work to vote is governed by state law. Be sure to check your state laws for the law that applies in your state(s).

New Developments on Verifying Employment Eligibility
Learn the new rules for Form I-9, which employers must complete to verify that new hires are authorized to work in the United States.

Sleepless in America
A new Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep Foundation finds longer work days leave Americans nodding off on the job, costing employers billions in lost productivity.

OSHA Benefits for Small Businesses
OSHA encourages all businesses to establish safety and health programs and find and fix hazards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.

How Individual States Regulate Safety and Health Programs
The OSH Act of 1970 encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health plans under the authority of state law.

After the Pomp and Circumstance - Empowering College Graduates
According to some surveys, today’s college graduates seek more than status and money. “A meaning to life” mantra is also ringing in their ears.

How Small Businesses Recruit at Colleges
Remember that during recruiting all potential applicants are either potential customers or know potential customers.

Tap Into this Talent Pool - College Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor has made available a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide variety of fields.

Can Social Media Enhance Employee Communication?
Social media has begun to improve companies' ability to enhance employee communication.

What Can You Do to Adapt and Grow Future Leaders?
Tomorrows leaders can be challenged today to broaden their experience base.

Are You Losing Employees You Want to Keep?
The cost to replace an employee who leaves is 50 percent of that person's salary. Here are five tools for creating an employee retention tool kit.

Benefits & Compensation

It takes a competitive, and sometimes, creative benefits and compensation package to attract and keep top talent. Learn what appeals to and motivates valued employees.

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Almost All Organizations Offer Education Assistance to Employees
A recent survey, Education Assistance Plans, conducted by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, reveals trends in organizations' education assistance policies.

Tags: Education Assistance, IFEBP, CCH

No Cost Relocation Candidates
The concept of offering a relocation package is inconceivable to many hiring managers. However, the best candidate for your open position probably lives more than 100 miles away, outside of your local area.

Tags: relocation, hiring, staffing, benefits, Careerbuilder.com

Work-life balance focus is shifting to employee health and well-being, flexibility
As organizations strive to manage rising health-care costs, more work-life professionals are sharpening their focus on proactive health and wellness programs in the workplace.

Tags: employee health, wellness programs, Alliance for Work-Life Progress, AWLP, work-life, CCH

Ten-percent Penalty for Early Retirement Distributions Waived for Active-duty Military Reservists
Military reservists called to active duty can receive payments from their individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans and 403(b) tax-sheltered annuities, without having to pay the early-distribution tax, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Tags: Military, IRS, Reserve, retirement, 401k, 403b, Pension Protection Act, IRA, Roth, CCH

Severance Benefits Conditional to EEOC Charge Deemed Retaliatory
On August 8, 2006, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland held that an employer violated the anti-retaliation provisions of several federal employment statutes by...

Tags: EEOC, Severance Benefits, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Venulex

Pay Me What I’m Worth
Competitive pay is the most recognizable part of a company’s compensation and benefits package, and is key to gaining and maintaining marketplace advantage.

Tags: salary, Motivate, budget, compensation, Samaria Jones

IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Affecting Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
These regulations clarify the types of expenses that qualify as "dependent care assistance," as well as the individuals for whom expenses can be reimbursed.

Tags: IRS, Dependent, Transportation, Expenses, DCAP, Dependent Care, Flexible Spending

Employer Response to PPA Funding Changes Gauged in Towers Perrin Survey
One in ten companies expect their required pension funding contributions to increase by more than 25% as a result of the funding changes enacted by the Pension Protection Act of 2006...

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EBSA releases final, proposed regs to comply with PPA annuity provider selection provisions
The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released interim final and proposed regulations to comply with the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-280; PPA) annuity provider selection provisions.

Tags: EBSA, Pension Protection Act, Annuity, Credit, Fiduciaries, Interpretive Bulletin, ERISA Advisory Council, PPA, Secretary of Labor, DB plan

Benefits Costs Outpace Salaries, Says BLS Report
Benefits costs rose more quickly than salaries for the period June 2006 to September 2006, according to the most recent Employment Cost Index from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Benefits Costs, Salaries, Health insurance, Paid leave, Supplemental pay, Employment Cost Index, Retirement, Increased Costs, CCH

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