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Auto Industry Execs: We're Hiring
In the past year, IAC Group North America, the big interior supplier, has hired about 350 employees at its Belvidere, Illinois, plant to supply interiors for the Dodge Dart and Jeep Patriot and Compass made at Chrysler Group's plant there.
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Goodyear Commits to Hiring 1,000 U.S. Military Veterans
Goodyear said it will hire the veterans over the next three years through its partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes program.
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Harvard Grads Flooding Wall Street
Any time so many bright young folks flood into Manhattan's concrete canyons to take jobs in investment banking or private equity, it's a clear sign the market has topped out.
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Survey: 45 Percent Would Cut Salary for Flexibility
A survey released August 30 found 45 percent of working adults are willing to relinquish 8.6 percent of their salary for more flexibility at work.
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More Employers Adding Automatic Enrollment to Defined Contribution Plans: Survey
In 2012, 65 percent of employers surveyed by Towers Watson & Co. offered an automatic enrollment feature, up from 57 percent in 2011 and 51 percent in 2010.
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Salaries for Human Resources Managers
Changes in data collection techniques make it difficult to compare past, present and future employment numbers and salaries for managers in human resources, compensation and benefits, and training and development. Before 2004, the Standard Occupational Classification system did not capture ...
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Corporations Adopt the Hackathon
Small businesses are using hackathons as cost-effective tools to tackle problems, recruit talent and unleash innovation. The hackathon presents a quicker, scrappier way to tackle large-scale problems with whatever resources they have on hand.
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Employees Get Creative When Calling in Sick
Thirty percent of workers called in sick during the past year even when they weren't ill, according to a CareerBuilder survey. In addition, the survey found the holiday season tends to be the busiest time for sick calls.
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Data Bank Focus: Shifting Norms?
The unemployment rate has stalled in its decline from the highs of the recent recession—hovering at about 8.2 percent for the first half of this year. In contrast, the number of workers employed through temporary help services continues to climb, swelling by 101,000 workers in the past six months.
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People with Disabilities at Work and Play
With the 2012 Summer Olympics over and its 10,500 competitors back home, the Paralympic Games got under way Aug. 29. Taking part will be 4,200 athletes with a disability—40 percent of the number of athletes in the Olympic Games.
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Temp Bill Rates May Be Back on Rise
The IQNdex's August reading of 105.9 is up 0.7 percent from July and up 1.2 percent from three months ago. The increases compare to the entire 12 months ended in May when the IQNdex rose by less than 1 percent.
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Trash, Recyclable Collector Deaths Spike in 2011
On-the-job fatalities among trash and recycling collectors dramatically increased last year, making the job the fourth most dangerous in the land.
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Meeting in the Middle
It's well known that more and more women have entered the workforce over the years. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that about 31 percent of adult women were employed in 1948, but that figure, which has dipped in recent years, jumped to 55 percent by 2011. What's less well-known
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Data Bank Focus: Absence Rate - A Measure of Performance
Understanding absence rates among employees is a key step in gauging overall employee productivity and the costs of the workforce. Recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that occupations in health care services and support, community and social services, and office and ...
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Federal Employees Most Frequent EEOC Charge is Retaliation: Study
It is the fifth straight year that retaliation topped the list as being the most frequently alleged complaint.
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Data Bank Focus: A Deficit of Good Jobs or a Deficit of Good Candidates?
The National Employment Law Project recently reported an imbalance in employment growth following the recent recession. Its detailed analysis of data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau, shows the news is good for those in ...
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Pension Plans' Funded Status Up on Stronger Equity Market: Mercer
The average funding level of pension plans sponsored by companies in the S&P 1500 rose to 73 percent in September, up from 72 percent in August and the record-low funded ratio of 70 percent set in July.
