Employee Participation

When the recession first hit, many employers looked at ways to cut costs immediately. Many employers reduced staff or eliminated 401(k) matching, but these rash moves often turn out to be mistakes, says Jackie Greaner, North America leader of talent management at Towers Watson, a global professional services company in...

Among companies that have an employee recognition program, 64 percent of companies say their employees are rewarded based on job performance, as opposed to 36 percent of companies that do not have a recognition program, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.

An agreement has been reached between striking Vermont teachers and school administrators in the Rutland Southwest Supervisory Union, bringing a six-day strike to a close.

More people sought unemployment benefits last week, pushing the number of applicants to the highest level in two months.

Mitt Romney has come up with an "amazing statistic" and Republicans inside and outside his presidential campaign are doing their utmost to spread it around: "92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women."

Four months after the same bill died on the House floor, New Hampshire's Senate voted Wednesday to effectively kill a bill that would limit unions' ability to collect fees from nonunion workers.