Employee-Paid

People with disabilities experienced an unemployment rate nearly 74 percent higher than the rate for people with no disabilities for the first quarter of 2012.

The company that makes Twinkies, Wonder bread and Ding Dongs says it's making a final offer to workers to accept cost-cutting before it asks a bankruptcy court to impose the cuts.

Express Scripts aims to help patients stay on their meds with a product that predicts who will stop taking prescriptions before the person actually does it.

Resume paper, trips to job interviews, even steel-toe boots can all be claimed as a work-related expense on tax filings. Yet only one in five taxpayers say they include it, according to a survey from Liberty Tax Service and CareerBuilder. Only 7 percent have claimed job search expenses.

Every organization has a need for a human resources professional, right? That may be one reason why it's ranked as one of the 10 best jobs for 2012, according to CareerCast, which analyzed 200 jobs from best to worst.

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