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Byline: Jerry Geisel Cliffhanger is an apt way to describe this month's passage of pension funding relief legislation. On the last day of the post-election session of Congress, a measure [...]

Q: I'm having real problems with my boss. He was appointed six months ago and comes from outside our sector. He has no technical knowledge of what my team and [...]

Q: I'm a PA, and my boss, who runs his own property development business, is being very rude to me. I knew the job would include a bit of everything [...]

Byline: Jo Causon Director, marketing and corporate affairs, Chartered Management Institute Q I have recently been promoted to a managerial position, and have found that several people have decided they [...]

Byline: CAROL PHILLIPS And CAROLYN TORRES Ever wonder what your millennial employees are thinking but not saying? Last spring, we conducted focus groups among professionally employed millennials around the country. [...]

Employers shy away from workplace mediation Two-thirds of employers have never used mediation to settle workplace disputes, research has found. Research by law firm Dundas & Wilson (D&W) found only [...]

Q: I work part-time in the voluntary sector and have been in my role for six months. The longer I spend with my manager, the more I realise what a [...]

The process will warn your CEO that he has been exerting impossible pressure on the firm. Q: My CEO keeps coming up with ideas. We all admire him, but he's [...]

Q: What is the office protocol for having your boss round for dinner? I've just been promoted to manager and told my girlfriend that I thought it would be a [...]

Byline: Roberto Ceniceros SAN DIEGO-While California's workers compensation insurance system continues to deliver the improvements that employers sought from a series of reforms beginning in 2002, legislative challenges are an [...]

Your boss's body language and critical talk will amplify your own susceptibility to stress. Q: We've just been through a massive reorganisation in my department and most people I manage [...]

Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK EVANSVILLE, Ind.-Whirlpool Corp.'s move to suspend 39 smokers last week for lying on their benefits enrollment forms to avoid a $500 annual tobacco use surcharge could be [...]

According to Howard Grosvenor, managing consultant at people performance specialist SHL, global changes will have a great impact on the way we work in the future. UK employees will need […]

IDD: What would you say is the single best way to combat the craziness we're seeing in healthcare costs today? Loeppke: I would say at the outset that the cost [...]

To afford to start a new business, I must use low-cost foreign manufacturers, some of whom likely maintain unsafe working conditions. It is difficult to be certain from here. In [...]

MSC Cruises will start introducing passengers to their cabin stewards over the internet. The plan is for the cabin stewards to record short videos about the ships' cabins, and passengers [...]

Q Dear Work Clinic, I have noticed people seem reluctant to report sickness to their line managers due to the fear they will be seen as weak or bad at [...]

In one sense, rising healthcare costs are good for you. A survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Mathew Greenwald & Associates found 63 percent of people with health [...]

EU blue card work permit would add another layer of bureaucracy, warns CBI EU blue card work permit idea earns mixed reception Plans for a European Union (EU) work permit [...]

Byline: Robert Bruce keep 'em keen Career progression should be clearly defined if you want to find tomorrow's leaders from today's recruits Fresh-faced graduates joining the company always used to [...]

Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-Business groups are concerned that a bill designed to prevent workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and 'gender identity'' could have unintended consequences for employers. A [...]

In 1982, after my sophomore year of college, an agency arranged a summer job for me: a couple needed someone to assist the cook at their estate in the Hamptons. [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez TORONTO-A number of Ontario employers are adjusting their benefit programs as a result of the removal of certain health care services from the government health care system. [...]

Everybody is talking about climate change, but few employers are doing things that make a significant difference to the environment. How can HR turn words into actions? by Louisa Peacock [...]

Byline: Ed Frauenheim Less than a month before America's Job Bank disappears, employers, states and other organizations are scrambling to prepare for life without the free government job site. Small [...]

Byline: Mark Fry achieve your maximum potential n Be inclusive -- avoid favouritism and treat all members of staff equally. n Set an example -- staff will follow your lead, [...]

How can employers and their staff be encouraged to sort out disagreements in the workplace without resorting to employment tribunals? That is the central issue for a root-and-branch independent review [...]

Thousands of workers face criticism every day about their employers' ethics. But HR can help staff to take a positive view. Virginia Matthews Retail workers are at the sharp end [...]

- I recently set out to find a new senior HR role and approached a number of specialist HR recruitment agencies. I expected to be bombarded with vastly unsuitable roles [...]

It's certainly not all in the mind, but stress may be a major contributing factor to back pain. Sally O'Reilly reports. When someone is suffering from back pain, their employer's [...]

The government must give more support to employers in promoting flexible working rather than just overloading them with red tape, a leading business figure said last week. Patricia Peter, head [...]

Byline: BROCK READ Not long after arriving on campus this fall, college freshmen across the country heard the usual stern warning about Facebook, the popular online social network. Be careful [...]

The cheerful news: 92 percent of managers believe they are excellent or at least good in the role of boss. The less-cheerful news, drawn from the same Rasmussen Reports poll [...]

Employers are looking to control costs by resorting to healthcare trust funds and redesigned PMI policies, says Sally Hamilton The recent abundance of bad news surrounding the National Health Service, [...]

Byline: JUDY GREENWALD Employers are divided over how to introduce consumer-driven health care plans. Some believe strongly that the best course of action for employer and employee alike is to [...]

- I am infuriated and ever more demoralised with political correctness and its illegitimate offspring, 'claim culture'. In personal liability claims following accidents, we are now in a position where [...]

I agree with some of Mark Godfrey's conclusions (Letters, Personnel Today, 13 June) - especially that large organisations tend to have more difficulties in dealing effectively with absence.One of my [...]

Almost three-quarters of employers experienced recruitment problems last year, according to research by IRS Employment Review, Personnel Today's sister publication. The latest HR Prospects survey found that private sector employers [...]

Bill Goodwinbill.goodwin@rbi.co.ukSome 67% of recruitment managers do not believe that CVs are a useful indication of future success, research by Cranfield School of Management has revealed.Nearly 80% of those who […]

President Bush has voiced his excitement about health savings accounts, and accountants should be excited too. The advent of HSAs, coupled with a high-deductible health insurance plan, spells plenty of [...]

Helping your boss to fulfil his goals is likely to lead to greater autonomy for you. Q: I work in a creative industry, managing a team of talented, enthusiastic and [...]

by Mike Berry UK employers fear that new age discrimination laws will have a greater impact on their business than any other form of anti-discrimination legislation. With less than seven [...]