Benefits Manager

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.

After calamitous losses on Wall Street and fears of another recession, the economy got a dose of good news Thursday: The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 for the first time since April.

Sometimes I wonder if CFOs and HR Directors talk with each other. Occasionally I run into a CFO who is implementing a tax strategy using employee benefits, and he or she is clueless as to whether the benefits are actually valued by the employee.

One of the largest private sector union elections in U.S. history is headed for a do-over.

Demographic and administrative concerns are some of the factors that scare insurers away from bidding on the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program contract, according to officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Striking Verizon landline workers have harassed and even fired a BB gun at those still on the job, blocked trucks from getting to Verizon facilities and kept work from being completed, the telecommunications company said Wednesday as it pursued legal action in five states to limit picketing and stop what...