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Honeywell Settles Ageism Suit for $2.15 Million

Under federal law, employers cannot deny employment to anyone simply because they are 4...

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Dear Workforce How to Deal with Employee Complaints About Managers

I have employees making bad comments and complaining about their managers. They are ver...

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Wal-Mart’s New Chief People Officer Has His Work Cut Out for Him

Lawrence Jackson, a Harvard MBA who has been on Fortune ’s list of the most powerful bl...

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Staffing Companies are “Picking Up Steam”

Employers’ continued reluctance to add permanent jobs has helped the contingent-staffin...

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Dear Workforce How Do I Quantitatively Measure the Size of Our Workforce

The process is based on a series of ratios or relationships and presumes a relatively f...

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Making It Harder to Leave PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft has been facing the mother of all retention challenges. Oracle’s hostile tak...

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MBAs Don’t View Business as Very Clean

Women surveyed generally had more negative impressions of business ethics than men.

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Visa Cap Didn’t Last Long

Some members of Congress want to raise the limit; labor advocates do not.