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Complimentary White Paper: HR Analytics: Gaining Insights for the Upturn
Find out how workforce analytics is being used to significant strategic effect, helping HR organizations make decisions on cutting programs to lower costs, reduce workforce, and reallocate talent to ensure strategic business goals are met.
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25 Highest-Paying Jobs Requiring On-the-Job Training
These 25 jobs are the highest-paying occupations among those that require work experience or on-the-job training?
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Kennedy Introduces Paid Sick Bill in Senate
Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts has introduced legislation that would require employers to allow employees to earn at least 7 days of paid sick leave per year.
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This Week's Poll
Does your organization use E-Verify to verify employment eligibility of newly-hired employees?
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Last Week's Poll
How many jobs at your organization would you describe as difficult to fill?
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Report: Demand for Managers and Execs Rose in May
The number of job openings for C-level, VP, director, and managerial candidates improved last month for the first time since November, according to the CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index.
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Many HR Pros Say Paid-Sick-Leave Mandate Will Pass This Year
Thirty-eight percent of employers say that a federal paid-sick-leave requirement will become law this year, but 62 percent disagree, according to a poll on Compensation.BLR.com and HR.BLR.com.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the past 90 days.
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Reducing Pay, Hours, Employees? Think Before You Act
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Lisa Van Fleet, a partner with the law firm Bryan Cave LLP, works with employers to help them solve problems related to their deferred compensation and benefit plans. For the past several months, the requests she’s receiving for help have developed a decided pattern. What’s the single theme of many of the calls? Cutting costs associated with compensation and benefits.
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
We are planning to retain an unpaid intern who will be attached to our public relations person. Are there any rules whereby this person might be considered an employee of ours even if they receive no salary?
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HR Challenge®: Domestic Partner Benefits
Some states allow same-sex couples to marry. While federal law still only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman, the states’ legislation is significant for employers because of the host of benefits and tax breaks for married couples governed by state law. As of January 2010, what 6 states will allow same-sex couples to marry?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Pay for Exempts During Shutdown
An HR Forum subscriber wants to know whether an employer has to pay exempt employees their salary during a company shutdown.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Doll Surgeon
National Average Salary: $16.82 per hour (June 2005 data)
If your child’s doll loses a limb or even its head, call the doll surgeon, possibly at the New York Doll Hospital (yes, it exists). The Department of Labor classifies the doll surgeon among mechanics and repairers.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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