Employee Participation

One-third of parents with young children say they're worried about losing jobs or facing pay cuts when they must watch their sick children at home, according to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health by the University of Michigan.

Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. said Monday it is in discussions with the Food and Drug Administration about speeding up a regulatory review of Orexigen's obesity drug Contrave.

The federal government has begun soliciting bids for the construction of a Jobs Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., three years after the project was stalled by contract language that would have required the facility to be built by union labor.

Unemployment rates fell or held steady last month in nine key swing states at the center of this year's presidential election.

When employers involve frontline managers in the talent management process, it often results in improved market performance, says Jay Jamrog, senior vice president of research of Institute for Corporate Productivity.

The proportion of West Virginia workers paid an hourly wage at or below the federal minimum standard declined in 2011, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday.

Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped 46,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the highest in four months. The increase represents a rebound from the previous week's sharp drop. Both swings were largely due to technical factors.

Some of the nation's leading manufacturing companies announced a new program Monday to help veterans gain the skills necessary to fill some of the estimated 600,000 high-tech, manufacturing jobs that remain open because employers can't find qualified applicants.