As employers continue to look for ways to cut health care costs and improve consumerism among the work force, consumer-directed health plans, and health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts, are expected to remain strong in 2012.
More than 50,000 people throughout the country are participating in a Change.org campaign to encourage Sallie Mae to stop charging jobless borrowers a $50 fee for forbearance on their student loans.
Obviously, theres some serious issues with our health care system and even more question as how to fix it. Accountable care organizations aim to directly address the problems plaguing health care, including cost, quality and satisfaction. Theyre also an integral component to health care reform. But are they the way...
U.S. workers are stressed about their personal financial situations, which is their work performance and retirement savings plans, according to a new Society for Human Resource Management survey .
Thirty-eight percent of executives are more willing to negotiate salary with top candidates than they were just one year ago, according to a new survey by Robert Half, a specialized staffing firm headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.
Technology professionals are receiving their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the career site for technology and engineering professionals.
According to experts at M&I, a part of BMO Financial Group, small-business owners should start succession planning five to 10 years before the anticipated transition; however, many small-business owners are so focused on everyday business operations, especially given todays economic climate, that they are not investing the required time to...
In December 2011, employers advertised more than 13,000 available positions for industrial engineers, representing a 2 percent increase from December 2010, according to research WANTED Analytics.
According to EM-Power Services, a provider of long-term care insurance and employee benefits services, LTCI is an important benefit that should be offered by employers in 2012, especially as the U.S. is expected to face rapid growth among the age 65 and older population.
Over a one-year period, industrial employment in South Dakota grew 1.8 percent, according to the 2012 South Dakota Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published yearly by Manufacturers' News, Inc. in Evanston, Ill.