According to ManpowerGroup, a provider of work force solutions, employers should focus on building long-term flexible work models, especially as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the overall August jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul.

Gov. Pat Quinn has less than a month to choose which benefits will be required in basic health insurance plans sold to individuals and small businesses in Illinois under the federal health care law, an important decision that will determine the cost of future premiums and how broad coverage will...

About 600 workers went on strike since early July at nursing homes in Connecticut to protest what they say are labor concessions imposed by the company that owns the nursing homes, Parsippany, N.J.-based HealthBridge/Care One.