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Well, just in case you had your doubts, consider the resurgent debate over the payroll tax cut. The suits in Congress have until Feb. 29 to figure out whether to extend the politically popular tax cut and hopefully how to pay for it or simply let it expire.

Sixty-one percent of private employers offer long-term incentives while 95 percent provide short-term incentives, according to a recent study by WorldatWork and Vivient Consulting.

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

The South Carolina House has approved a bill Republicans say further strengthens the state's already tough anti-union law.

An estimated 37,000 state of Michigan workers represented by unions won't have to take unpaid furlough days this fiscal year because of a budget surplus, state officials said Wednesday.

Thirty-four percent of information-technology leaders believe they will add temporary workers while 35 percent anticipate bringing on more permanent workers during the first quarter, according to a survey by TEKsystems, a provider of IT staffing solutions and human capital management.