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"TFSA" Provides Opportunity for Employers to Help Employees Save More
Tax Free Savings Accounts may soon be available in the Canadian workplace. Hewitt Associates shares more.
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Your Employees Should Think Twice Before Cashing Out Their 401k Plans
Americans have become increasingly concerned about job security-and with just cause, turning to their 401k plans to help to meet those needs. Unemployment is on the rise, and that means many people will search for additional funds to help them get through a financially uncertain period of time. William Rowan explains more.
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Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Retaliation Against Whistleblower
Bad vibes for the whistleblower? Joan Lloyd shares her suggestions for someone caught in the tail winds.
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Ethical Behavior in the Workplace
Unethical dilemmas in the workforce can be uncomfortable at best. Rebecca Harris from Solutions EAP shares tips on how to deal with
workplace ethics.
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U.S. Supreme Court Overturns California's Limitation on Employer Free Speech Rights to Resist Union
The U.S. Supreme Court in Chamber of Commerce v. Brown holds that the NLRA preempts California's "union neutrality" law that prohibited
employers who accept state funds from using those funds to deter union organizing. Little Mendelson shares this report.
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Social Responsibility as a Catalyst for Staff Development
To be effective and lasting, corporate social responsibility must complement an organization's entire business strategy - particularly staff development. Wendy Johnson shares more.
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Care to Put That in Writing?
Journaling is a great way to grow as a leader. Of course, you actually have to do it to get the benefits. Laura Villacrusis-Weaver explains.
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How Are Leaders ID'd? And How Can the Company Help?
Companies have always needed to engross their employees, not threaten or entertain them. Richard Cavalier shares more.
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Developing Questions for Multi-Rater Feedback
Earlier this week a HR.com member asked the following question: "what are the best questions to use for 360 feedback for an executive performance review?"
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Nearly Half of Employers Have Caught a Lie on a Resume
Career Builder recently asked hiring managers to share the list of their Top Ten Most Unusual Resume Fibs.
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Recruitment 2008: From Marketing Theory to the Practicalities of Web-based Hiring
Webster Buchanan Research recently surveyed a number of HR Directors and Senior Managers and asked them about Web-based hiring. Webster
Buchanan shares their White Paper.
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Competition for Available Jobs
The US Labor Department has announced that people signing up for jobless benefits has reached its highest point over the last 6 years because of company cutbacks and the faltering economy. Robin Doran shares more.
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The Second Element of Change: Roles
There are many players in any successful change event. Each player occupies a role or in some cases one person can function in several roles. Nathan Greeno shares more.
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This Week's Comic

Workforce Reporting at Safeco Corporation: Creating Business-Focused
Scorecards and Analytics
Safeco Corporation, one of the largest insurance companies in North America, established a Workforce Reporting & Analytics team with the goal of "ensuring that accurate and insightful workforce data analysis is efficiently delivered to appropriate business audiences." The driving force for workforce analysis was the need to ...
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Date: September 4, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Creating a Performance Development Culture - Do You Have What It Takes?
Performance appraisals have long been saddled with a negative, but often accurate image of being a meaningless or even demeaning exercise. Human Resource professionals who intuitively understand the true value and promise of performance measurement often become ...
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Date: September 4, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employee Retention and Engagement
Utilizing the WorkTrends database, Dr. Jack Wiley will share the most cutting-edge information available on employee engagement. He will review the top 10 global drivers of engagement and the four "macro"
drivers. The macro drivers will be ...
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Date: September 9, 2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

A guide to laying the foundation for your compensation program - and how to sell it to management
Are your employee compensation practices getting out of hand? Tell me if any of these following situations ring a bell for you. An employee comes to you with a ransom job offer from down the street. One of your
hiring managers is insisting on ...
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Date: September 9, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Applications Are Online- Now What?
Driving all candidates to on-line applications was billed as the one advancement in healthcare recruiting which was going to transform the process. No more paper applications to be lost, copied or transported. Inputting massive amounts of information was to be a thing of the past
and the ...
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Date: September 9, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

Health & Welfare for Healthcare: Best practices in benefits admin for
healthcare organizations
With an increase in consumerism and an intense war for talent, there is a temptation to regard healthcare organizations as "traditional" businesses. For those of you in the industry, however, you know that your set of challenges and ...
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Date: September 10, 2008
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET

Reinventing Time to Fill in Corporate Recruiting
Designed for VPs of HR and Recruiting Managers alike, this webinar will take a fresh look at the recruiting time to fill statistic. From the basics of "What is the date of a fill?" to using different tools to make fair averages for recruiters, and ...
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Date: September 16, 2008
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET

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