The Senate Finance Committee is proposing ways the tax system could be reformed to promote increased retirement savings and recently considered testimonies from multiple employee benefits and retirement experts.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has discovered that the Bank of America Corp. has violated the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after it improperly fired an employee.

According to a recent Accountemps survey, 33 percent of chief financial officers report that remote work situations, such as telecommuting and working from satellite offices, have grown at their companies over the last three years.

As employers have tightened budgets in this economy, they are shutting down entire functions or departments in favor of cheaper outsourcing. The long-term unemployed were victims of budget problems, not talent problems.

The economy is poor, retirement funds are down, and wages have been stagnant for years. Workers across all generations are feeling the effects, especially the baby boomers who cant afford to retire, says John Sweeney, human resources knowledge adviser for the Society for Human Resource Management.

Since December 2008, women have lost 81 percent of the jobs lost in the public sector, reveals new analysis by the Institute for Womens Policy Research.

For the fourth consecutive year, the HR Policy Association Pharmaceutical Coalition has certified Prescription Solutions by OptumRx, a pharmaceutical benefits manager, as part of HR Policys Transparency in Pharmaceutical Purchasing Solutions program.

As the economy remains poor, the cost of health care remains growing concern to consumers, according to Deloitte's 2011 Survey of Health Care Consumers.