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Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. IN ORDER TO cobble together 60 Senate votes for the Employee Free Choice Act, it's likely that legislative negotiators will have to alter a provision that [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. With the unemployment rate hovering in double-digit territory, it's difficult for many people to find a job. It's an even bigger challenge for Mark Karner, a [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. WHILE ORGANIZED LABOR presses forward with its legislative and regulatory agenda in Washington, some companies are trying to nip unionization in the bud. G&K Services, a [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Partly in response to an economy that has left HR professionals hurting, the Society for Human Resource Management is implementing a restructuring of the organization that [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. New Supreme Court justices not only change how the panel makes decisions, they also influence which cases are put on the docket. This month, the court [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. A force on Capitol Hill SHRM invests substantial time, money and staff in influencing public policy. It spent $766,418 on lobbying in 2006. On occasion, the [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. With its CEO stepping down and strategic review looming, will the world's largest HR group head in a new direction? With Las Vegas as the setting [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. While the Society for Human Resource Management's rebranding efforts highlight that HR is its middle name, the Human Resource Planning Society has decided to remove an [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. After Congress approves an economic stimulus package, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, hopes pay discrimination will move to the top of the Senate agenda. Kennedy's bill, the [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. An inclusive workforce is integral to strong business decisions and financial results, according to Tiane Mitchell Gordon. As senior vice president for diversity and inclusion at [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. With her resignation announcement last week, Society for Human Resource Management president and CEO Susan Meisinger is set to leave her organization as it launches a [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff, Jr. One of the goals of major pension reform legislation Congress approved last year was to get more Americans to save for retirement by allowing companies to [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Revived immigration legislation in the Senate has a long way to go to assuage human resource organizations concerned about employer verification policy. The chances are better [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff, Jr. Executive-legislative branch squabbles aren't the only form of bickering in the checks-and-balances system. Lately, Democratic majorities in Congress have been pushing back against the judiciary, as [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. If the political obstacles slowing progress on immigration policy are an indication, then prospects are dimming for Congress to tackle another complex issue with a wider [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. The Service award is given to the organization whose workforce management leaders have developed a program to help another constituency within the organization meet its business [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. At the beginning of the year, it looked as if minimum wage legislation would also be a vehicle for the first executive pay action of the [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. With their takeover of Congress, Democrats have vowed to scrutinize the Bush administration much more carefully than they claim that Republicans did when they were in [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff, Jr. A change in leadership on Capitol Hill, a looming presidential campaign and a renewed sense of urgency about health care reform have brought together unusual alliances [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. A federal review of the country's primary employee time-off law could be a prelude to expanding leave policy or curbing it, depending on whether proponents or [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff, Jr. COURTING OLDER WORKERS CVS goes beyond the country's inner cities to keep its workforce in shape. It has also tapped a growing pool of mature workers. [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff, Jr. CVS has forged close relationships with government agencies and nonprofits-including faith-based groups-to staff up for expansion and provide social services to help the formerly unemployed get [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Employers may not get everything they want from pension reform legislation being hammered out on Capitol Hill, but they have apparently prevailed on one sticking point-credit [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. RULING EXPANDS GROUNDS FOR RETALIATION CASE Companies will likely find it more difficult to avoid trials related to retaliation claims following a recent Supreme Court decision, [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Rep. Howard 'Buck' McKeon, R-California, became chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee in February, taking over when the previous chair, Rep. John Boehner, [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. If House and Senate negotiators can agree on the conditions that define a company as 'at risk'' and require higher payments into its pension plan, the [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. A high-profile effort by the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on businesses that employ undocumented workers has failed to mollify a House conservative who [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. A recent Government Accountability Office study found that all workers-even younger ones-fare worse in cash-balance pension plans than in traditional defined-benefit programs. Now the analysts whose [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Companies that require employees to put on layers of protective gear to perform their jobs may decide to move time clocks closer to work areas and [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. When he announced a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers in October to reduce his company's health costs by $3 billion, General Motors chairman and [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. Some of Ed Beltram's retired colleagues are seeking employment not because they miss going into an office each day, but because someday they might want to [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. President bush's Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals court judge John Roberts Jr., is likely to lean toward employers in workplace disputes. Scholars and lawyers, however, caution [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. For the second year in a row, the House of Representatives last month approved a package of bills designed to make it easier to appeal citations [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. When John Finnegan, chairman, president and CEO of the Chubb Corp., was first approached with the idea of establishing a workplace flexibility pilot project, he was [...]

Byline: Mark Schoeff Jr. As their budgets are hammered by rising health care costs and the rolls of government-sponsored programs swell, states want more employers to provide medical insurance to [...]