Employee Participation

Commissioner Karla Davis of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development has warned the state's 56,000 unemployment claimants that they will soon be required to prove they are looking for work.

As the economy slowly stirs back to life, employers increasingly find themselves in a position they haven't found themselves in quite a while: worried about keeping good employees.

Meet the Saba People Cloud, a new application that helps businesses build a database of scores that can help them assess the most valuable employees based on social networking.

Although unemployment remains high and there's a perception of a talent surplus, human resources professionals might have to choose from limited quantities of high-skilled workers as the widening skills gap makes it difficult for U.S. employers to compete globally, according to a new Deloitte study.

Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, adding to signs that the job market is strengthening.

The median rates of unscheduled employee absences averaged 0.6 percent of scheduled worker days per month through 2011, which is down from 0.8 percent in 2010 and 0.7 percent in 2009, according to an employer survey by Bloomberg BNA.