Benefits Manager

According to new research from Civic Ventures, 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers combining personal meaning, continued income and social impact, but they have trouble making the financial transition.

A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

Eighty-one percent of employees can access paper documents revealing sensitive workplace information; however, only 62 percent say their employers train on their data security policies, according to the Fellowes' Workplace Data Security Report.

Despite the high unemployment numbers, many employers say they struggle finding talent to fill open positions; however, these employers often overlook the long-term unemployed, says Ravin Jesuthasan, global head of talent management at Towers Watson, a global professional services company in New York City.

A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday.

At least 3.1 million Americans are employed in green jobs, a sector that now accounts for about 2.4 percent of the nation's total employment, the Labor Department said Thursday.

American Airlines plans to ask a federal bankruptcy judge next week to throw out its union contracts, if it can't reach cost-cutting deals with labor unions, according to a person familiar with the situation.

The administrator of a North Texas city believes he's not needed and has laid himself off.