What this service is:  

Keep yourself and your staff well-informed and able to meet everyday challenges and long-term planning and policy-making goals, with focused news, practical information, and strategic insights on all HR-related developments.

What it helps you do:  

• Have accurate, objective accounts of HR-related news from courtrooms, hearing rooms, and boardrooms across the country.
• Get critical advance warning of significant changes in federal employment laws and regulations, plus regular updates on state regulatory, legal, and legislative developments.
• Be aware of recent HR-related court decisions, complete with expert explanations of their potential impact on your business.
• Avoid potential problems by ensuring that your company is in compliance with the law.
• Find out about other companies' policies and management successes and failures, which you can incorporate into -- or leave out of -- your own HR plans.
• Discover new ways of handling personnel matters and hear what the experts have to say. See how developments in the private sector can influence your company or career.
• Review hard-to-find coverage of selected international developments.
• Refer to the latest economic and other statistics. Measure your company's performance against industry trends and standards. Understand the actions that shape policies and profitability in companies nationwide.
• Gain insights from in-depth analysis of employee relations issues and trends, and from interviews with leading lawmakers, business leaders, union officials, and attorneys.
• Find helpful case studies and focused coverage of recruitment, retention, training, and employee enrichment every month in Workforce Strategies.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print notification is issued weekly and indexed quarterly, cumulating annually.

Web notification is available weekly and archived to 2/05/1996. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

• AIDS
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Benefits taxation
• Child care benefits
• Compensation and benefits
• Contingent workers
• Drug screening
• Early retirement
• EEO and affirmative action
• Eldercare
• Employee privacy rights
• Employment-at-will
• Family leave
• Flexible staffing and scheduling
• Grievances
• Health and safety
• Health care cost management
• Military reservists
• Public sector
• Reengineering
• Sexual harassment
• Smoking restrictions
• Telecommuting
• Union organizing and bargaining
• Work and family
• Workplace violence