Despite the national unemployment rate remaining fixed at higher than 9 percent, 22 percent of employed workers are proactively finding new jobs within the last year, a 4 point jump from 2010, according to a new Labor Happiness Index commissioned by Snagajob.

Once the proposed merger between AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA is closed, AT&T is bringing back 5,000 wireless call center jobs to the United States that are currently outsourced to other countries.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers ages 55 years and older make up 23.9 percent of the U.S. work force, and that number is likely to grow as more aging workers are delaying retirement, which is a challenge for employers.

Forty-nine percent of employers of all sizes say finding and retaining high-quality talent is one of the main business challenges, particularly in the talent management field, where respondents say that is the top issue, finds HireRights 2011 Employment Screening Benchmarking Report.

The Supreme Court of Texas issued a decision in Texas Mutual Insurance Company versus Timothy J. Ruttiger that reversed the Houston Court of Appeals ruling and required Ruttiger take nothing on his Insurance Code and Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act claims.

Human resource professionals seldom consider a job candidates social media activity during final hiring stages, according to a recent study from the Society for Human Resource Management.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has distributed notices of a possible pattern of violations to two mines, which received similar notices in November 2010.

According to a recent ORC International survey on the United Kingdom work force, 42 percent of regular smokers believe they are either healthy or very healthy, with only 17 percent seeing themselves as unhealthy or very unhealthy.