SHRM expects August 2010 hiring to inch up and layoffs to fall to three-year low
August 13th, 2010
August job growth will show small gains over last year while the layoff rate will drop to a three-year low according to a monthly survey of human resource professionals at more than 1,000 companies across the country. The Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Leading Indicators of National Employment (LINE) Report, which includes the only [Read more...]
BP to pay $50.6 million to resolve DOL litigation stemming from fatal 2005 Texas refinery explosion
August 13th, 2010
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that BP Products North America Inc. will pay a full penalty of $50.6 million stemming from the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others. The agreement resolves failure-to-abate citations issued after a 2009 follow-up investigation. In addition to paying [Read more...]
Experienced, mature workers to compete with college students for internships this Fall, finds survey
August 12th, 2010
Competition for internships will be stiff this fall, as experienced/mature workers and college students vie for ways to get a foot in the door. Nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of employers report that they are seeing experienced workers, those with more than ten years experience, and mature workers, workers age 50 or older, apply for internships [Read more...]
Proposed Florida immigration legislation similar, but even tougher, than Arizona’s law
August 12th, 2010
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, along with Rep. William Snyder and other state legislative leaders, revealed proposed legislation that would curb illegal immigration in Florida, according to the Attorney General’s news release. Under the proposed legislation, law enforcement officers would be required to check suspected illegal immigrants’ status during the course of a lawful stop, [Read more...]
Survey finds three in four employees find their work meaningful
August 11th, 2010
As many as 75 percent of employees find their work to be meaningful, according to a new poll from Right Management. Only 4 percent of employees rarely or never find meaning in what they do. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower.
The firm conducted the poll in partnership with LinkedIn®and received [Read more...]
