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According to a monthly survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, recruiting difficulty and new-hire compensation continue to grow, and hiring in December among the manufacturing and service sectors are expected to drop as job cuts rise.

As an employer, you know the New Year is approaching fast; and if you have not already had your open enrollment completed, or if you are sweating the last minute details of your plan design and rollout for 2012, you may be wondering what to expect for the final version...

For residents in the rural Midwest, the governor's announcement was golden: A global company with Chinese ownership planned to hire 612 people at a new factory making artificial sweetener.

What every small business owner should be doing or thinking about before the new year.

Gov. Rick Snyder wants to tie retraining programs to companies' needs, erase barriers keeping welfare recipients from work and encourage more Michigan residents to earn math and science degrees under an initiative aimed at making workers more competitive in the global marketplace.

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose for the second straight week, a sign the hiring market is recovering at a slow and uneven pace.