Employee Participation

The Department of Labor is making available a $75 million grant to fund YouthBuild, which creates programs to help out-of-school youths finish high school or General Educational Development programs as well as develop occupational skills in industries such as construction, health care and information technology.

Although 76 percent of nurses report feeling satisfied or very satisfied professionally, 72 percent of nurses say they believe troubles are ahead, such as workload increase, nursing shortages, and greater liabilities and litigation regarding nursing.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by union members challenging Indiana's right-to-work law that was enacted last year.

Officials say New York's unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent in December from 8.3 percent a month earlier.

Eighty-five percent of employers report finding it difficult to very difficult when it comes to finding new hires with the proper skill sets to perform the open positions.

Of employees who have ever worked on teams, 68 percent say they were part of a dysfunctional unit at some point, according to a new University of Phoenix national survey.