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Our recent article on paid sick leave is eliciting a firestorm of controversy and comments. What do you have to add to the mix?

In an effort to make saving for retirement seem a little less daunting, Symetra Financial has launched a new Web site, www.DontFear65.com. By focusing on empowerment rather than fear, the campaign seeks to help employers in their retirement education efforts by dispelling widely held anxieties and misperceptions...

Research from The Conference Board explores the concept of evidence-based human resources, the idea that talent drives performance. The New York-based organization issued a report, "Evidence-Based HR in Action" -- which studies how Hewlett-Packard, Capital One and Harvard University are using evidence-based...

September is jam-packed with great new online content. For our first issue this month, there will be even more of the audio-only content you've grown to know and love. Access us on the web at ebn.podhoster.com.

This Labor Day, employees would prefer to spend the extra day off with a variety of celebrities and political figures, according to a new survey from The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

The Department of Labor rolled out a new online resource to help employers in their employment of veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, two common battlefield-related conditions.

Maybe it is counterintuitive but the data has validity. I survey our break room every time I go to lunch and the majority of younger workers <30 are eating pizza, fast food, or worse, vending machine fare. Compare this to the older workers, who I see bringing healthier lunches from home, healthy frozen...

The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued two proposed rules to make investment advice more flexible for participants of 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts.

The American Savings Education Council (the nonprofit arm of EBRI) and AARP have released a new report examining the retirement readiness of Gen X and Gen Y workers. The report makes all of the usual observations about these two groups -- among them, that they aren´t saving as much as they know they...

Here´s a counterintuitive tip, but a tip nonetheless: Employers might do better targeting wellness and disease management programs toward younger workers, based on new survey results from EAP provider ComPsych. More than one-half of workers in their 60s have healthy diets, compared to only 17.7% of...