HISD employees will likely see higher healthcare costs next year, but pay bumps could offset increases

HISD is seeking a 4% general pay increase for eligible employees and could raise its minimum wage increase to $17 per hour to ...
CNBC

Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce

Microsoft's one-time retirement program will be open to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more. The company is also decoupling stock ...
Ars Technica

Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy

Blue Origin released details about a new stock option plan in an internal communication on Tuesday. Ars was able to review the materials and connect with some employees to gather their thoughts. Some ...
CBS News

USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of "cash crisis"

The U.S. Postal Service is suspending its contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System, a pension plan for its workers and other civil servants, as the agency struggles with mounting ...
Business Wire

Alight Launches Leave Planner™ to Redefine How Employees Plan and Manage Leaves of Absence

This new feature within Alight Worklife ® simplifies a historically complex process, giving employees clear, accurate leave information when it matters most, and helping employers reduce complexity, ...
JD Supra

Economic Development Project Information Now Confidential: New Risks for Public Officials & Employees

Ohio Revised Code (R.C.) Section 9.66 is well-known to economic development practitioners as the oft-cited state law provision requiring disclosure in economic development assistance applications of ...
Inc

Open-Plan Offices Could Be Hurting Employees’ Brains, New Research Suggests

The new study, from researchers in two Spanish universities, involved fitting test subjects aged between their mid-20s and mid-60s with wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) devices. The workers were ...
HR Dive

5 ways employee development needs to change to keep up with work today

For years, employee development has followed a familiar pattern: HR designs structured programs, employees complete assigned learning and managers reinforce it during scheduled moments like ...
The State

SC state employees get pay increase in House budget plan. Here’s how much

South Carolina’s state employees would get a 2% across the board raise under a House Ways and Means Committee budget proposal. The proposal is part of that of a $15.4 billion spending plan approved ...
CNN

Where businesses must offer employees a retirement plan

More than 50 million US private-sector employees don’t have access to a workplace retirement savings plan like a 401(k). But a growing number of states are now requiring most private-sector employers ...
Business Insider

5 ex-Dell employees are suing the company, alleging mismanagement of its retirement plan and saying it cost workers $318 million

Five ex-Dell employees have sued the tech giant, alleging the company mismanaged staff retirement plans. They allege that Dell stuck with underperforming funds, costing workers $318 million. The suit, ...