Compensation among outside directors at the countrys largest corporations faced modest gains for the second successive year, suggesting salary increases for these positions are back to prerecession levels, according to an annual analysis by global professional services company Towers Watson.

Available engineering jobs grew 12 percent in September from the last year, totaling more than 184,000 jobs listed, according to research by WANTED Analytics, a source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace.

One-third of parents with young children say they're worried about losing jobs or facing pay cuts when they must watch their sick children at home, according to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health by the University of Michigan.

Law firms are expected to continue to use lateral hiring as a means to grow despite its questionable effectiveness, according to a new report by LexisNexis and ALM Legal Intelligence.

As National Save for Retirement Week begins, ADP Retirement Services offers retirement tips to employers as well as employees in order to them prepare for their financial futures.

Although 45 percent of employers are set to close their offices on both Christmas day and Christmas Eve, few employers plan to recognize religious holidays by closing their offices in 2013, according to the 2013 Holiday Schedules Survey Findings conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management during its Diversity...

For organizations with employer-owned life insurance, which is a policy owned by an entity that acts as the beneficiary, there is the potential for major tax savings. But employers must be sure they are following all of the regulations in order to see that tax advantage.

When employers involve frontline managers in the talent management process, it often results in improved market performance, says Jay Jamrog, senior vice president of research of Institute for Corporate Productivity.