Private-sector workers are likely to experience little or no change in the pace of annual wage growth in the near months, according to the final first-quarter Wage Trend Indicator released by Bloomberg BNA.

After several years of losses, Michigan experience a growth 1.6 percent for manufacturing jobs, amounting to a gain of 10,252 jobs between February 2011 and February 2012, according to the 2012 Michigan Manufacturers Directory, an industrial directory published each year by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.

There is a gender wage gap between women and women in almost every common occupation, according to a new Institute for Women's Policy Research fact sheet.

Bartlett Grain Co. faces five willful and eight serious safety violations cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a grain elevator exploded in October in Atchison, Kan., killing six workers and hospitalizing two others.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is not expected to largely impact the growth rate of employer health care expenditures, according to two new studies from the health care business of Thomson Reuters in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

When the recession first hit, many employers looked at ways to cut costs immediately. Many employers reduced staff or eliminated 401(k) matching, but these rash moves often turn out to be mistakes, says Jackie Greaner, North America leader of talent management at Towers Watson, a global professional services company in...

Fifty-six percent of small-business owners feel positive about business prospects over the next six months, an increase from 48 percent last fall, according to the Spring 2012 American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor.

Among companies that have an employee recognition program, 64 percent of companies say their employees are rewarded based on job performance, as opposed to 36 percent of companies that do not have a recognition program, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.