As questions about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continue to surface and rising premium costs remain the reality, small businesses are exploring their health care options, and one solution that has come up is self-funded plans.
Eighty percent of employers say 2010's health reform law is increasing their costs and administrative hassles, which is a cause for concern, according to a recent employer survey by Kansas City-based Lockton Benefit Group.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released a free mobile application that allows workers to monitor the heat index at work sites in an effort to avoid heat-related illnesses.
While 60 percent of corporate executives say their companies have a crisis plan in place, only 29 percent are very confident their organization would respond effectively during a crisis, and 56 percent say they are somewhat confident, according to a new survey by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmans crisis management team...
Worldwide human resource experts are reporting a strategic shift in how companies recruit and retain talent, which has typically been considered an important driver of business competitiveness and growth, according to Executive Networks.
Men are getting hired more often than women, even though more men than women have lost jobs since the recession, according to a fact sheet released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
More than half of privately held companies offered raises to their chief financial officers, and those CFOs make 45 percent less than CFOs of public companies, according to a new CFO compensation survey report by MyCFOnetwork.
With a slow demand for products and services as well as ongoing talent mismatches, the labor market is still facing slow job growth, reveals ManpowerGroup’s recent survey.
According to the SFN Group Employee Confidence Index, workers’ confidence regarding their personal employment dropped slipped 0.3 points to 47.8 in July, but workers’ economic optimism dropped significantly , with fewer respondents feeling confident in the strength of the economy and job availability.
Although the unemployment rate for Americans without disabilities experienced a slight decline in July 2011, disabled Americans have faced a growing unemployment numbers since July 2010, says the American Association of People with Disabilities.