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California Legislature Nullifies Court Decision On August 2, 1999, California Governor Gray Davis (D) signed Senate Bill 26 into law, which prohibits an employer from considering an employee's salary when making layoff decisions. SB 26 expressly overrules...

The Internal Revenue Service has indicated that conversion from traditional pension plans to another type of pension, the cash-balance plan, may result in discrimination against older workers who have had longer terms of service in their companies. Cashbalance...

Merger mania has swept the corporate world. Yet too many deals fail because HR doesn't play a prominent enough role in appraising benefits, determining compensation and ensuring legal compliance. If there's one thing that Daniel Jones has learned from...

The use of software products and networking in human resources functions raises three broad issues that employers need to address when choosing and implementing software: protection of employee privacy, adherence to statutory notice and reporting requirements,...

Update California Legislature Nullifies Court Decision On August 2, 1999, California Governor Gray Davis (D) signed Senate Bill 26 into law, which prohibits an employer from considering an employee's salary when making layoff decisions. SB 26 expressly...

In a real sense, the aggregation of what have been the key features and functions of HR software over the past three decades becomes the benchmark for today's best performing software. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, how organizations have...

Companies are restructuring space to fire up creativity, harness energy and boost the flow of knowledge and ideas. Though human resources and management often discuss ways to make employees more productive, many neglect how to stimulate employees' creativity....

Social Security reform may be on the horizon. HR needs to learn about proposed changes so they can be prepared for challenges ahead. Social Security benefits originally were designed so that current workers would support current retirees, on the promise...

Mergers Media company Viacom Inc. will buy CBS Corp. for $34.45 billion in stock. The merger will combine among its mutual holdings the CBS television network; cable stations MTV VHI and Nickelodeon; publishing house Simon & Shuster; and film studio...

Unless you've spent the last couple of years trekking across the high mountains of Tibet, you know that the march toward digital data is creating its share of anxiety and controversy. Today, it's easy to duplicate, replicate and extricate data in ways...

A human resources software project requires multiyear, multidimensional investments, and thus crosses traditional annual budget cycles. There's a direct correlation between the scope of the project and the needed investment-in other words, as the number...

There's no magic-bullet response to the challenge (of a tight labor market).The answers lie in getting creative with candidate sourcing, fine-tuning the hiring process and training, training, training. In each case, HR can drive the process. Recently...

If you believe last year's figures that the outsourcing industry in North America racked up close to $141 billion, and that 12 percent of that came from human resources activities, you've doubtless come to the conclusion that an investment in such functions...