Oklahoma signed into law this month an Unemployment Insurance Reform Bill. The bill changes how employers handle unemployment compensation claims. The biggest change for employers is that they are now…
ManpowerGroup, a multinational human resource consulting firm, has released their annual Talent Shortage Survey. It reveals that fewer U.S. employers (32 percent) still report difficulties filling job vacancies due to talent shortages. Those numbers…
With the movement of a pen, Gov. Sam Brownback changed how Kansas collects taxes from businesses to finance benefits for unemployed workers on Monday. The reforms are designed to make…
By Robert Byers One of the greatest challenges any organization faces is finding qualified, motivated and capable employees. Having a great cause and a brilliant strategy to meet a need…
The YWCA of Bradford, PA - a member of 501(c) Agencies Trust - this year is celebrating 100 years of service. The organization began in the summer of 1915, when…
Arizona has become the latest state to pay off the money it had to borrow to provide unemployment benefits to workers during the recession. Last week the state paid off…
Korn Ferry, the world's largest executive search firm, has completed a global research project on succession planning. The results raise some real concerns about the risks organizations seem to be…
According to Gallup in 1953 two-thirds of U.S. workers preferred a male boss and only 25 percent said the sex of their manager did not matter to them. Sixty years…
For a large portion of the workforce, about one third, balancing home and career has become increasingly difficult this century. As a result many workers, especially millennials, are hunting for…