Forty-nine percent of employers of all sizes say finding and retaining high-quality talent is one of the main business challenges, particularly in the talent management field, where respondents say that is the top issue, finds HireRights 2011 Employment Screening Benchmarking Report.

The Supreme Court of Texas issued a decision in Texas Mutual Insurance Company versus Timothy J. Ruttiger that reversed the Houston Court of Appeals ruling and required Ruttiger take nothing on his Insurance Code and Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act claims.

Human resource professionals seldom consider a job candidates social media activity during final hiring stages, according to a recent study from the Society for Human Resource Management.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has distributed notices of a possible pattern of violations to two mines, which received similar notices in November 2010.

According to a recent ORC International survey on the United Kingdom work force, 42 percent of regular smokers believe they are either healthy or very healthy, with only 17 percent seeing themselves as unhealthy or very unhealthy.

Chief financial officers should be directly involved in their companies' sustainability programs as investors, customers and other stakeholders see a strong link between sustainability and financial performance, according to a new report from Ernst & Young LLP.

More than 1,000 new human resources job ads have included requirements for social media skills over the past 90 days, which is a 160 percent increase over the same timeframe in 2010, according to WANTED Analytics.

With the unpredictable stock market, the job front doesnt look like its headed in the right direction any time soon.