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Compensation among outside directors at the countrys largest corporations faced modest gains for the second successive year, suggesting salary increases for these positions are back to prerecession levels, according to an annual analysis by global professional services company Towers Watson.

Available engineering jobs grew 12 percent in September from the last year, totaling more than 184,000 jobs listed, according to research by WANTED Analytics, a source of real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace.

A Wisconsin judge refused Monday to put on hold his earlier decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Law firms are expected to continue to use lateral hiring as a means to grow despite its questionable effectiveness, according to a new report by LexisNexis and ALM Legal Intelligence.

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.

Although 45 percent of employers are set to close their offices on both Christmas day and Christmas Eve, few employers plan to recognize religious holidays by closing their offices in 2013, according to the 2013 Holiday Schedules Survey Findings conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management during its Diversity...