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'Shipping' and Handling: Picking the Right People to Head Overseas Is Paramount
Companies are increasing the number of corporate globe-trotters to emerging markets such as Brazil and China, but there is a potential price to pay beyond moving furniture.
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Manufacturing Should Ratchet Up Recruitment of Women, Experts Say
Women make up about a quarter of the manufacturing industry's workforce, according to a recent report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute. The same report suggests the industry should actively focus on recruiting women to fill hundreds of thousands of empty positions.
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Data Bank Focus: See Where Workers Are Saying 'See Ya'
How well does your company stack up against others in your industry when it comes to retaining talent? Benchmarking your company's annual quit rate— quits per year divided by the total number of employees and then multiplied by 100—with the annual quit rate for your industry can help you gauge how
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Shifting Out of Reverse
As part of our 90th anniversary, Workforce is talking to some of the people and organizations that helped influence today's workplace. In this installment, Workforce senior writer Rita Pyrillis talks to Ford Motor Co.'s vice president of HR, Felicia Fields.
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Michigan Lawmakers Pass Controversial Right-to-Work Legislation; Gov. Snyder Expected to Sign
The Michigan House approved House Bill 4003 and Senate Bill 116, which will ban the practice of workers being forced to pay any money to a union as a condition of employment.
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Ford to Add 2,200 U.S. Salaried Workers This Year
The hiring surge is the largest increase in salaried workers in more than a decade, the company said in a written statement.
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Data Bank Focus: Getting Them to Stay
Even with quit rates rising only modestly since 2007 for most industries, any quit is costly. Replacement costs can run from one-half to five times an employee's salary. If you haven't calculated the cost to replace all the employees your company loses in a year, take a look at the salaries of the
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Disaffected Workers Want Out of Unions
As organized labor loses leverage in a race-to-the-bottom global market, some workers are becoming so disillusioned by what their unions can, or rather can't, do for them that they want out.
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Michigan Governor Signs Right-to-Work Bills Into Law
Once they take affect early next year, Michigan will become the 24th right-to-work state in the United States.
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Data Bank Focus: A Shrinking Pool of Job Candidates
A number of statistics are pointing toward future recruitment challenges. First, the Federal Reserve Board projects that unemployment rates will continue to fall through 2015 and beyond. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show a clear downward trend in the number of unemployed persons ...
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Jacksonville Jaguars Owner Targeted by UAW Effort to Organize Auto Parts Plants
Shahid Khan, the Pakistan-born self-made billionaire who bought the Jaguars for more than $700 million in January, traditionally has been a private figure in the auto industry, but his profile this year became more public as the owner of an NFL franchise. His emerging visibility in the NFL has ...
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OSHA Steps Up Safety Inspections in South
Beginning August 20, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will increase the number of unannounced inspections it performs at worksites in Region 4, which encompasses eight southern states east of the Mississippi River.
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Working Longer No Lock for Comfortable Retirement
In the past, most workers figured they'd be able to retire at the age of 65. But following 2008's financial crisis, the idea of working a few more years to recoup lost savings became commonplace.
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Chicago Mayor Takes Tech Recruiting Trip to Illinois Campus
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking Chicago tech to Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 2, joined on the road trip by representatives from some 40 of the city's tech companies, including Boeing Co., BrightTag Inc., Cleversafe Inc., Google Inc., Groupon Inc. and GrubHub Inc.
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Automakers Try New Recruiting Strategies to Fill Engineering Vacancies
Threatened by a chronic shortage of engineers -- exacerbated by years of industry restructuring -- auto companies are having trouble filling job vacancies in Detroit now that the industry is coming back to health. That is particularly alarming for Detroit, a massive engineering hub for the entire
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Verizon to Transfer $7.5B in Pension Benefits Through Annuity Purchase
Under the arrangement, Verizon will transfer about $7.5 billion in pension plan obligations to Prudential Insurance Co. of America by purchasing the annuity. The agreement covers plan participants who retired and began receiving pension benefits before Jan. 1, 2010.
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The Midnight Shift Returns as Automakers Boost Output
By the start of 2013, 22 of the 83 assembly plants in North America will operate with three shifts of workers, and nearly half of all vehicles built here will come from a three-shift plant.
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SHRM Transparency Group Reveals Strategy to Run for SHRM Board Positions
The transparency group has met twice with association leaders since last year’s conference in Las Vegas, but after the second meeting in March, SHRM leaders decided to discontinue the meetings, according to Kate Herbst, a transparency group member and now a board candidate.
