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

A number of large companies are opening on-site medical clinics as a way to cut growing healthcare costs, according to a published report.

The employers, which include Toyota, Sprint Nextel and Pepsi, are trying to

A high-tech partnership is working to make punching the clock a think of the past.

Workbrain Corp. today announced it has teamed with Cisco Systems, using that company's IP phone to develop what it calls "the indu

Final regulations regarding wellness programs under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have been issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor.

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

A new $250 million National Institute of Health lab in Baltimore vibrates so much that tests there could be compromised, forcing administrators to consider moving to an older facility.

The NIH is now considering

The head of the U.S. nuclear security agency has been forced to resign over management and security issues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman asked for the resignation of Li

A new crime lab under construction in Tucson, Ariz. will be funded by $17.7 million seized in a crime committed four years ago, according to Attorney General Terry Goddard.

The announcement was made Wednesda

Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed spending $95 million to support research into clean energy, biomedicine and computer science.

State officials say the funding plan, released Wednesday, would pl

Workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory were ordered to evacuate after a chemical spill there Tuesday.

A department of energy spokesman said no hazardous chemicals were released into the environment and