What this service is:

With an emphasis on practical strategies to improve productivity and performance and limit potential liabilities, this Bulletin concisely analyzes new developments in employment and human resources management.

What it helps you do:

• Stay informed of the latest legislation, regulations, industry trends, and statistics relating to pay, benefits, employee relations, safety and health, and more. Objective reports are complemented with practical analysis and guidance.
• Understand current events and their impact on you, your staff, and your organization. Focus on pay policies, HR administration, EEO, working with people, policy guidance, and more.
• Find out how other companies are solving difficult HR problems with articles on their policy and management successes -- or failures.
• Learn how to ensure that your company is in compliance with the law, to avoid costly penalties.
• Discover new ways of handling personnel matters. Hear what the experts have to say.
• See how developments in the private sector can influence your company or career.
• Gain insights from in-depth analysis of employee relations issues and trends.
• Use valuable facts and figures and Bloomberg BNA surveys for benchmarking

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Web notification is available weekly and is archived to 6/07/2001. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

SEE ALSO: Human Resources Library

• Absenteeism and turnover
• Affirmative action/diversity
• Age bias and compulsory retirement
• Benefit plans
• Communicating policy
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Employment-at-will
• Employment discrimination
• Employment testing
• Family and medical leave
• Flexible employment
• Hours of work
• Independent contractors
• Job evaluation
• Layoffs and shutdowns
• Minimum wage
• Overtime pay
• Pay equity
• Performance and productivity
• Recruitment and selection
• Retention
• Safety and health
• Sexual harassment
• Strikes and slowdowns
• Temporary and leased workers
• Termination and outplacement
• Work and family
• Workers' compensation