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For hiring managers: Who needs costly background check products when there´s MySpace and Facebook? CareerBuilder finds that 22% of hiring managers use social networking sites to check up on potential employees, up from 11%; in 2006. For job hunters: Clean up your online presence; 34% of respondents...

Guess what? Poor working conditions are bound to adversely impact your mental state and health, shows new data in a report from the World Health Organization.

The latest issue of Health Affairs features an article that the key to reforming the nation´s health care system is not a red solution or blue solution, but rather a purple solution that blends the best components of Barack Obama´s and John McCain´s proposals. Read the full article here (as well...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a new guide for employers on applying Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In other ADA news, the Senate recently passed amendments to the law, designed to counter Supreme Court decisions that ruled that people with certain ailments were...

Two surveys out this week show HR/benefits managers have some PR work to do among employees at their companies.

Pay is only one part of the total compensation picture so comparing pay only is not looking at the entire salary. There are other factors too that make salaries vary per environment. For instance a personal handling HVAC in a hospital environment is different than HVAC in an office atmosphere. Looking...

Yes Salary information should be public. Every Public entity must publish their salaries and I believe that private entities shoudl follow suit. It keeps people more honest and perhaps we would not have meltdowns such as the Lehman fiasco!

Attention DB plan sponsors: Do your homework on hedge funds. The Government Accountability Office last week called on the Department of Labor to provide more uniform guidance on the quasi-asset class, now increasingly used to juice pension plan returns.

Should salaries be public? The issue won´t be moot, if a new Web site has its way.

Just one in five large and mid-size companies offer an onsite health program, states new research by Hewitt Associates -- but that doesn't mean it isn't a popular benefit. Eighty one percent of companies offering onsite clinics (and 95% with onsite pharmacies) are satisfied with the results.