The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a $3,330,000 National Emergency Grant increment to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to help with the clean-up and recovery efforts after Hurricane Irene, which hit Aug. 26-30, 2011, and Tropical Storm Lee, which hit Sept. 3, 2011.

Fifty-five percent of U.S. workers would leave their jobs for employers that practice employee recognition programs, according to a recent survey by Globoforce, a provider of employee recognition solutions.

Nearly half of U.S. adults did not receive preventive services, such as screenings, consultations and prescriptions, from health care professionals prior to 2010, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Employers, brokers and consultants should thoroughly evaluate the overall cost of poor employee health and not solely focus on the more identifiable medical and pharmaceutical costs, according to a new productivity insight paper Productivity Insight #1 Health-Related Lost Productivity: Causes and Solutions from Standard Insurance Company.

As health care costs continue to rise, the health of the employee population is becoming increasingly important. To help control these costs, employees should take more responsibility for their health, and employers are in a position to provide them with the right tools and resources to make better health care...

Organizations that incorporate employee recognition programs boast a 31 percent lower voluntary turnover rate than those with ineffective employee recognition programs, according to a report from Bersin & Associates.

Forty-one percent of executives say social networking contributes to building and maintaining workplace culture, but only 21 percent of employees believe the same, according to a new Deloitte LLP survey conducted by Harris Interactive.

Americans reporting new-job starts fell to 49.7 from 50.5 last month, and once that figure falls below 50, it reveals that more employees are losing jobs than starting jobs, according to the Consumer Reports Index, which analyzes the number of Americans starting new jobs with those losing jobs over the...