The U.S. Department of Labor today is awarding a $1.68 million National Emergency Grant to help Vermonts cleanup and recovery efforts from Tropical Storm Irene.

The city of Chicago and the Chicago Federation of Labor are partnering to offer a comprehensive wellness program to city employees and their dependents.

Under the Kansas City Collaborative, participating employers saved nearly $11 million in direct health care costs by focusing on wellness.

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.