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Walgreen Co.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings fell almost 8 percent, knocked down largely by its exit from the Express Scripts pharmacy network, but the drugstore operator still topped analyst expectations, and its shares outperformed broader market indexes Tuesday.

Seasonal hiring is expected to hit levels similar to 2011 for an improvement from the recession, and hiring is believed to start earlier this season, according to a survey of hiring managers by employment network Snagajob.

As natural gas is playing a smaller role in the Texas power generation market from 2005 through 2011, the state lost $7.7 billion and forfeited 8,600 jobs, according to a study by Dr. Michael J. Economides, a chemical and biomolecular professor at the University of Houston, and Philip E. Lewis,...

The Michigan Supreme Court says a lawsuit challenging health insurance for the domestic partners of state employees won't be placed on a fast track.

A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

Eighty-one percent of employees can access paper documents revealing sensitive workplace information; however, only 62 percent say their employers train on their data security policies, according to the Fellowes' Workplace Data Security Report.