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For the second straight year, more employers are having trouble identifying and retaining critical-skill workers, according to a new survey from Towers Watson and WorldatWork.

Sticking to his deadline, NBA Commissioner David Stern erased the first two weeks of the season after negotiations failed to produce a new labor deal and warned that more games were in jeopardy of being cut.

The Republican-led Michigan House is reviewing legislation that could change the state's workers' compensation laws.

Decrying the human toll of the nation's economic and financial crisis, a group of corporate and labor leaders advising President Barack Obama is calling for sweeping and urgent changes in government policies, from liberalized immigration and less restrictive regulations to a more business friendly tax system and greater spending on...

President Barack Obama's jobs bill, facing a critical test in the Senate, appears likely to die at the hands of Republicans opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires.

Help wanted. Whiners need not apply. Hirings not what it used to be. And, honestly, given what I read about the economy every day, Im more than a little surprised we cant get more resumes in our own office.

The National Labor Relations Board postponed the implementation date for its new notice-posting rule that requires most private businesses to put up a poster that tells workers about their right to form a union. What is the new effective date of the rule?

According to the Randstad Employee Confidence Index, worker confidence grew by 3.8 points in September after three consecutive months of decline.