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• Blawg Review #124; Labor Day Special Historical Edition


• How to Write a Great Reference Letter


• Disparate TREATMENT vs. Disparate IMPACT


• 9 Tips to Beat the Heat and Look Professional: Women


• HR Record Retention Requirements: Or, How Long Do We Have to Keep Those #$#%# Records ?


• Determining What the Popular Job Sites Are For Recruiting


• IT Jobs Outlook, From Dept. of Labor

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Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?

Some Immigration Law Tips for Employers

Contract Drafting: When Is a Comma Worth $2 M? When Is Boilerplate Not Boilerplate?

State of the Union(s): A Labor Day Follow-Up, With Questions

Survey: Much Business Use of Social Network Sites

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Career & Job Search

Preoccupations - do you love the job, or just the paycheck?
Personal story of leaving the not-loved, well-paying job to start own business, by author of ?Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams?

Job climate for class of 2008 a bit warmer than expected
Job prospects this year have been better than career counselors and recent graduates had expected. Employers are still extending offers, just not as many as last year.

Surprising six-figure jobs--in pictures
Worth a quick look if starting or switching careers.

How to make your job outsource-proof
Practical advice; questions to ask yourself, and tips for improving your chances.

Jump-starting a stalled job search
Six ways to fend off frustration and revitalize your job search.

Employee Benefits

Wachovia banks on three-year leave plan
Plan allows employees unpaid leave of absence up to three years to care for loved ones, but doesn't

Research shows employers want to address obesity in workplace, need more guid...
Employers and employees agree: The workplace is an appropriate setting for responding to weight management issues, according to new research.

New retirement organization issues first research brief, launches web site
National Institute on Retirement Security issued its first retirement research Issue Brief and launched www.nirsonline.org.

Study: large employers slow changes to retirement plans.
Pace of retirement plan changes among FORTUNE 100 companies is stabilizing, and majority still offer pension plans to new employees.

Health plans support push from employers for early alcohol screening and inte...
Goal is identifying problem drinkers earlier and getting them into treatment before drinking becomes an addiction.

Work Trends

Wanted - Skilled Workers for a Growing Economy in Brazil
Dearth of highly skilled labor, particularly engineers and tradesmen, may interfere with Brazil's projected period of sustained growth, with GDP increasing 5 % a year, from now to 2010, and about 3...

Women and Technology: The Ugly Truth
Good news: in pharmaceuticals, high tech, petro-chemicals, and aerospace, young women are making impressive strides; bad news: a little ways down the road, more than half women drop out.

Families and Work Institute study shows significant changes since 1998
Study billed as most comprehensive and far-reaching study of practices, policies, programs and benefits provided by U.S employers to address changing needs of today's workforce and workplace.

Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at Work
Corporations really need folks in their 30s to early 40s, but there is a tentative relationship at best between that cohort and Corporate America.

Telecommuters: Invisible workers?
Those who work from home struggle with isolation. But few would give up the arrangement. Supervisors must hone new set of skills.

Top Stories

Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into '09
As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market, reinforcing gloom spreading across economy, troubles confronting American workers seemed to intensify.

With Fuel Prices Rising, Companies Work Quickly to Reduce Employee Travel
Sales travel is most affected by climbing gas prices, with 49% tagging it as top concern, followed by traveling to seminars and other non-essential travel (45%). Air travel is suffering the most.

Over 25 % of American Workers Injured on Job
53 % of those injured filed work comp. claim. 31% over 1 mo. missed time due to injury. Over 4 million nonfatal workplace injuries or illnesses in 2006.

Paid Time Off Perils
Excellent, detailed article by lawyer on considerations in drafting policies for vacation and other paid time off.

Survey: Helping Employees Deal With Gas Prices
Should companies care about the impact of gas prices on employees? Survey of HR executives on what, if anything, companies are doing to help employees deal with rising gas prices.

Employment Law

Class action termination paycheck suit.settled for $15 million.
Employees claimed they were owed money after they quit, retired, or were fired. Said they were not paid their final paycheck on the last day worked.

Auto repair company to pay $1 million settlement in overtime class action law...
SUit alleged company misclassified customer service managers and customer service representatives (CSRs) as exempt from overtime.

Federal jurists urge high court to hear firefighters? reverse bias suit
The key question to be answered is whether a municipality may disregard the results of a civil service exam, designed to be race-neutral, on grounds it yielded too many qualified applicants of one ...

House panels approve ADA expansion
A measure that would expand the scope of the Americans With Disabilities Act won the approval of two House committees on 6-18-08.

Executive order widens government contractors' immigration-check requirements
Order requires all companies doing business with federal government to use E-Verify system to check workers' SS nos. The system has been voluntary for private firms, but mandatory for government a...

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Careless Recruiting Could Crush Social Networking
Mass influx of recruiters to social networking sites could decrease networks' value. Discusses this paradox and best practices for social network recruiting.

Recruiting Metrics 101
Guide for backing up HR performance with numbers that are easy for top execs to understand.

The Myth of Recruitment Outsourcing
Report highlighting trends in recruitment process outsourcing and discussing keys to effectively managing outsourcer relationships.

Online Job Recruitment Trends, Benefits, and Outcomes
Paper analyzing trends in online recruiting and predicting future of recruiting and hiring processes as online methods predominate.

Human Resources

Is your internship program a prime employee source?
Some interesting stats from internship survey conducted by National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

Lessons from a hotel lobby: ask wise questions before terminating employees
Practical advice from a leading employment lawyer; starts with a great personal story.

Why Zappos pays new employees to quit?and you should too
Unusual idea -- test new employee commitment and fit by offering them an easy exit after probationary period.

Do recruiting basics advance with new technologies?
Discusses video interviews and automated reference checking.

Survey on large companies' monitoring of employee e-mail, internet use
41% read or otherwise analyze the contents of employees' outbound e-mail; 44% investigated e-mail leaks of confidential data in past year; and 26% fired employees for violating e-mail policies.

Labor Relations

Con Ed Agrees to Tentative Contract
Consolidated Edison agreed to a tentative four-year contract, ending a tense fight over wages, health care benefits and pensions.

UAW approves American Axle contract, end long strike
Eighth-longest strike ever for UAW ended Thursday as workers at American Axle and Manufacturing approved 4-yr. contract U.A.W.?s president described as subpar but "the best we can do."

Labor movement pushes in three different directions in energy law lobbying
With Senate preparing to consider comprehensive energy legislation, labor movement appears to be headed in three different directions in terms of lobbying for energy measures.

Burger King agrees to better wages, conditions for tomato workers
Burger King agreed to pay additional net penny per pound for Florida tomatoes to increase wages for Florida farm workers, and established zero tolerance guidelines for certain unlawful activities.

Unite set for historic US merger with United Steelworkers
Unite, Britain's biggest trade union, is preparing to announce a merger with a US counterpart, United Steelworkers, paving way for establishment of first global labor organisation.

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