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Front Page Image Arrow HR Urged To Calm Employees' Fears over Retirement Savings Accounts
As the U.S. economy takes its toll on workers' retirement funds, HR professionals are urged to help calm their fears, such as by emphasizing basic investment principles and the wisdom of riding out stock market volatility.

Arrow Connecticut Allows Same-Sex Marriage
Connecticut's Supreme Court rules that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts.

Arrow Rewards Boosted To Motivate Workers
As plummeting stock prices and profits pummel companies' incentive-pay plans, many firms are considering extra measures to reward and motivate valued employees.

Arrow Camera Phones Pose Legal Challenges
Camera phones in the workplace can raise harassment, privacy and security issues that HR professionals must factor into their policies.

Arrow EEOC Names Systemic Bias Official
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission names its first program manager for investigation of systemic discrimination by employers.

Arrow DHS Doubles Fees for Student Visas
Starting Oct. 27, foreign students will have to pay double to study at U.S. schools. The increased fees will be used to fund a U.S. government network that keeps watch over such students.

Arrow Firms Face Five Kinds of Identity Theft
The workplace is the site of more than half of all identity thefts, attendees at the SHRM Atlanta Human Resource Conference are told.

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Focus Areas

Comp & Benefits News

Market Turbulence Sounds Warning for ERISA Fiduciaries
The turmoil in the financial markets, while troubling for individual investors, also has potentially significant implications for qualified retirement plan fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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    Comp & Benefits News

    Rescue Law's Limits on Exec Comp Trigger Debate
    The controversial federal financial stabilization law contains provisions limiting executive compensation at companies receiving government relief. Are such limits enough, or too much?

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    Recruiting News

    Holiday Season Hiring Is Yearlong Process
    Bleak conditions for retailers as the 2008 holiday selling period approaches are expected to keep seasonal hiring well below the 2007 level, according to the annual holiday hiring forecast by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

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  • Staffing Management Focus Area home page

    Global HR News

    Dependence on Immigration Expected To Grow
    By 2018, the labor pools in major economies around the world will decrease significantly, creating regional workforce shortages that immigrant workers will answer, an expert says.

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  • Global HR Focus Area home page

    Diversity News

    2008 Campaign Highlights Diversity Issues
    The historic 2008 presidential campaign is casting a spotlight on issues of race and gender across the United States.

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    Organzational Development News

    Executive Coaching Gets a Second Look
    Executive coaching is being viewed as a credible tool for improving an organization's performance as well as for helping individuals.

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  • Organizational and Employee Development Focus Area home page

    Workplace Law News

    Age Limits for Dependent Coverage Raised
    To address the problem of the growing number of young adults age 19 through 29 who lack health insurance, an increasing number of states are enacting laws to extend dependent benefits to older children and young adults.

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  • State Workplace Law News



  • Cut Costs with Total Health Management
    Speaker: Cindy Gates and Robert Colao, Mercer
    October 7, 2008, 2 p.m.
    Sponsored by AviviaHealth

    How Much is Absenteeism Costing You?
    Speaker: Michael Klachefsky, Mercer
    October 9, 2008, 2 p.m.
    Sponsored by Kronos

    Understanding State and Federal Harassment Training Requirements
    Speaker: Reid Bowman, Esq. and Shanti Atkins, ELT
    October 14, 2008, 2 p.m.

    Election 2008: Labor Issues
    Speaker: Michael Layman, SHRM
    October 16, 2008, 2 p.m.

    World Class Service Delivery on a Global Scale
    Speaker: Carey B. Ellinghaus
    October 17, 2008
    Webcast sponsored by ADP

    Election 2008: A Look at Health Care Reform Proposals
    Speaker: Lisa Horn, SHRM
    October 22, 2008, 2 p.m.

    Election 2008: Tax and Benefits Issues
    Speaker: Kathleen Coulombe, SHRM
    October 29, 2008, 2 p.m.

    Succession Planning: Dealing with the Inevitable
    Speaker: Libby Anderson M.S., SPHR
    Now available
    Webcast sponsored by Taleo

    Goals and Outcomes: Linking Individual Goals with Organizational Strategy
    Speaker: Christopher D. Lee, Ph.D., SPHR
    Now avaiable
    Webcast sponsored by Halogen

    Making Pay for Performance Pay Off for You
    Speaker: Sharon Koss, SPHR, Koss Management Consulting
    Now available
    Webcast sponsored by Salary.com

    How to Give a Top-Notch Presentation
    Speaker: Kimberly Alyn
    Now available

    Understanding GINA: Employers and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
    Speaker: Burton J. Fishman, attorney, Fortney Scott
    Now available

    SHRM Get Out the Vote Webcast Series: Immigration Reform
    Speaker: Michael Aitken, SHRM Governmental Affairs


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    Award-Winning Mergers
    Lisa Peters, the 2008 Human Capital Business Leader of the Year and CHRO of the Bank of New York Mellon, offers tips on successfully handling mergers.
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    SHRM's HR Stories HR Stories: A Web Series
    Asking employees to pay for an employee appreciation day wasn’t the best idea he has seen, says Scott Cawood, VP of worldwide HR for Synygy.
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    South African Diversity
    Jimmy Manyi of Tiger Brands discusses the link between affirmative action and diversity in South Africa.
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    Next Webcast: Harassment Training Requirements
    Speakers: Reid Bowman, Esq. and Shanti Atkins, ELT
    October 14, 2 p.m. ET

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    HR Week Podcast
    HR and the bailout plan, E-Verify is extended, more.
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    Arrow HR Magazine: After the Layoff.
    Human resource professioanls lavish so much attention on employees during layoffs that they sometimes forget to care for themselves. Read about the problem and share your comments with other members.

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    Arrow  SHRM Human Capital Leadership Awards. Profiles of the companies cited in the 2008 awards are available from HR Magazine.

    Arrow  HR Presentation Templates. You can download PowerPoint presentations on a wide variety of HR-related topics, then customize them for presentations at your organization. View presentations currently available.

    Arrow SHRM Seminar: Sustaining Growth Through Talent.
    Dec. 3-5, Colorado Springs
    This program is for a small, select group of people who want to step back and develop the big picture of talent management and talent sustainability for their organizations. In addition to learning about new executive coaching skills programs and an assessment of your organizational and individual talent management efforts, a one-of-a-kind part of this program will be the experience of touring the Olympic Training Center.

    Arrow SHRM Research Quarterly: Career Development for HR Professionals
    In human resource management, career development is vital for success. But, while HR often provides career development opportunities to the overall workforce, HR professionals often forget there are also accountable for their own careers.

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    HR Tip

    Bottom LINE

    SHRM October LINE Report
    Manufacturing
    Service
    Employment Expectations
    -17.8
    -20.3
    Recruiting Difficulty
    -26.2
    -3.0
    New-Hire Compensation
    3.7
    -4.1
    For the full report go to shrm.org/line

  • More information.

    HR Tip

    More Effective Meetings

    Benjamin Franklin is credited with the expression “time is money.” Organizations wishing to maximize their employees’ productivity may find it worthwhile to evaluate the number, size, length and effectiveness of their internal meetings.

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