WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year received a total of 75,768 discrimination charges against private sector employers, the first increase in charge filings since 2002, the federal agency r

A report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that total compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006, down from 1.0 percent the previous quarter.

Wages and salari

Ever wanted to take a walk through a cutting edge cleanroom facility?

Blogger, technical evangelist and author Robert Scoble recently had a chance to do just that. And he brought his video camera with him.

Nearly 40 percent of workers have flirted with workplace romance, according to a new study.

And while 41 percent think dating a coworker might hurt their chances for promotion or put them in danger of being fired,

A report by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that 12 percent of employed wage and salary workers were union members in 2006, down from 12. 5 percent in 2005.

In all, unions count

Sometimes a little pat on the back can go a long way.

A survey by staffing firm Accountemps found that frequent recognition is the most effective non-monetary way to motivate employees.

Accordin

A new survey has found that as many as 20 percent of government workers plan to leave their current positions by the end of this year.

The CareerBuilder.com study, which surveyed 116 government workers 18 and olde

A former Homeland Security employee has been awarded $2.5 million in federal court after claiming he was retaliated against for complaining of harassment and discrimination.

Ulysses Hudson was awarded the settleme

A large percentage of senior executives in the UK believe that having the freedom to fire a fixed number of staff every year would improve performance.

The study found that more than three-quarters of the 562 busin

The National Labor Relations Board is expected to hear arguments in a case about whether employees can use an employer's e-mail system to discuss union matters with other employees.

Unfair labor practice charges we

Wonderlic, Inc., today relased the latest version of its intelligence test, the Wonderlic Personnel Test.

Development of the new version, the WPT-R, required years of research, and thousands of field tests administ

While employee ratings of senior management shot upward earlier in the decade, those numbers dipped slightly in 2006, a survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm, has found.

Watson Wyat