Employee Participation

Do you know whats going on at the office? Or at least with your workers?

Voluntary benefits likely wont be going away any time soon, especially with HHS and health reform presenting a challenging health care environment. Voluntary benefits are popular because they work, and people like them.

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.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is telling The Associated Press that both his economic record and his experience leading a large growing state sets him apart from his Republican presidential rivals.

Enrollment is always a busy time of year for human resource departments, but the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has added an extra layer to sort through, causing many employers to consider changes.

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 Americans close to or beyond retirement age are staying in the work force.