Compliance

U.S. Salary-Increase Budgets Hit 25-Year Low

Changes to salary structures to account for changes in cost of living and other factors...

Workplace Culture

Creating Lasting Performance Improvement Through Behavior Change

In the corporate world, learning is meaningless unless a change in behavior takes place...

Legal

Exam Request Lawful Due to Safety Concerns

Functional capacity evaluations, prompted by legitimate safety concerns, are lawful.

Benefits

Extension Likely for COBRA Subsidy

Obama and lawmakers back the proposal to aid laid-off workers.

Benefits

Analysis Finds Defined-Benefit Plans Outpace 401(k) Returns

A Towers Watson analysis finds that defined-contribution plans don’t replicate the adva...

Benefits

Recession, Demographics Hasten Shift Away From Employer-Based Health Care

Private-sector job losses of the last two years have sped up the shift to government pa...

Legal

NLRB Nominee May Be Headed for Senate Filibuster

Now that Sen. Scott Brown has been sworn into office, he is expected to vote on Nationa...

Technology

The Trouble With Online References

An innocent-sounding recommendation could be fuel for a wrongful termination lawsuit. H...