A look at what goes into an employer's decision to reduce its work force.

Over the next 14 months, seven of the 20 top-selling brand-name drugs are set to lose their patents. Many employers see this as a way to cut their health plans prescription costs, and though the cost savings potential is certainly available, there is more to it, says Terrance Killilea, vice...

Just 9 percent of information technology leaders report that their employers have formal, well-defined processes in place to deal with their current work force planning strategies, with only 8 percent having a system for focusing on future strategies, finds a recent quarterly study from TEKsystems and the Inavero Institute.

The number of workers covered by workers' compensation hit a new low when the figure fell by 4.4 percent in 2009, the largest decline in two decades, according to a report by the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Although employers have been recently cutting payrolls, severance and change-in-control plans havent been affected by the recession, finds a new study by WorldatWork and Innovative Compensation and Benefits Concepts LLC, an HR consulting firm.

Many employees' poor emotional state will most likely not help sustain healthy lifestyle modifications, reveals a new wellness report released by ComPsych Corporation.

The California overtime lawyers at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik filed a class action lawsuit against B & H Education in San Diego, Calif., for claims of violating the wage and hour rights of admissions advisers under the California Labor Code.

Forty-two percent of workers reveal they typically or always live paycheck to paycheck, which is an improvement from 43 percent in 2010 and in line with levels seen back in 2007, according to the latest nationwide survey of more than 5,200 workers by CareerBuilder.