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76% of IT Decision-Makers Predict Cloud Applications Will Be Breached
More than three-quarters of information technology decision-makers predict their cloud applications are likely to be breached, according to a survey of 1,300 officials in 13 countries by Cisco Systems Inc. According to the survey released May 15, 76 percent of IT decision-makers predict their
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Survey: Health Care Reform Splits Employers
Forty percent of employers want the high court, which is hearing oral arguments this week on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to strike down the 2010 law. Still, employers are far from being united in favor of repealing it.
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Novartis Agrees to $99M Settlement in Sales Rep Wage Dispute
The $99 million settlement resolves the wage-and-hour claims brought in 2006, as well as additional wage-and-hour claims covering a more recent time period, according to the joint announcement by Novartis and Sanford Wittels.
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Morgan Stanley to Pare Workforce by 1,600
Morgan Stanley is finished cutting the ranks of financial advisers at the firm's brokerage joint venture, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, said a spokeswoman for MSSB. Like virtually every other provider of financial services these days, Morgan Stanley is cutting jobs. Mark Lake, a spokesman for
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A Third of New Yorkers Say They Can't Retire
About 40 percent of New York workers had access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan in 2009, compared with the national average of 53 percent, according to the report by the New School's Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
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Push for Green Jobs: An Interview With David Foster of the Blue Green Alliance
The executive director of the not-for-profit group Blue Green Alliance is an advocate for renewable energy, recycling and energy efficiency, all things he says will help push our overall economy forward.
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Live Chat: Is the Work-More Economy Working?
Join Senior Editor Ed Frauenheim in an exciting live chat to discuss today's "Work-More Economy," where job demands have risen. Are firms going too far, hurting themselves and workers? Join Ed on Thusday, March 8, 2012, at 1 p.m. ET. for this compelling one-hour chat.
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Fighting for Employment: Veterans in the '40s and Today
To celebrate Workforce Management's 90th anniversary, we're running a series of articles looking at important workforce-related issues with a then-and-now theme. This installment examines employment for veterans returning from war with a focus on the 1940s and the aftermath of World War II. Next ...
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Twelve Prescriptions—Not Predictions—for 2012
To get through all of this, we need to do more with less in terms of how leaders lead, the standards we set, what we must learn, understand and apply, and how we act and communicate to prevent, detect and correct problems while remaining faithful to our values and missions.
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American Airlines Wants to Terminate Pension Plans
The termination, if approved, would shift billions of dollars of promised but unfunded benefits to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., resulting in the biggest loss ever for the agency.
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Move to Flexible Workforce Is Permanent, Consultants Say
The online M Squared poll of independent consultants was conducted in December 2011 and included responses from 530 professional independent consultants.
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Archer Daniels Midland Announces Plan to Cut 1,000 Jobs
The cutbacks represent 3 percent of the company's total workforce, according to a release issued Jan. 11.
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Losing Our Religion
R.E.M. just broke up. It's an occasion for mourning not just the end of the pop band's 31-year run, but the decline of lasting teamwork in our society.
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Aon Alleges Employee, Client Poaching by Another Firm
In a chancery suit filed June 15 in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, Aon Risk Services Cos. Inc. and Aon Risk Insurance Services West Inc. alleged that the former executives violated their employment agreements with Aon.
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The Goods on the 'Good Employer'
In an essay based on their new book, Workforce Management senior editor Ed Frauenheim and his co-authors, Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer, say workplaces must be at once caring, exacting, and stirring in the emerging "Worthiness Era."
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Employment Law Landscape Changes With Wal-Mart Ruling
The decision makes it more difficult for employees to file large class-action lawsuits unless they are able to clearly identify a common injury, such as a companywide discriminatory policy.
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When Johnny or Janey Comes Marching Home
Veterans find it's a tough terrain in getting from the battlefield to their chosen field.
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'It Was Like Christmas'
With companies leaning on lean staffs to carry more weight in this melancholy marketplace, perhaps the best thing your company could do is offer a little early holiday spirit. You know, surprise them with a thoughtful gift. Go ahead: Make their day.
