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Job Prospects Remain Bleak

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers and job seekers responding to a recent poll aren't painting a bright picture of this year's job market.
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GE Workers Make Overtime Claim

August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric has classified certain workers at its aircraft engine unit as salaried employees so it can wriggle out of paying them overtime...
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Florida Outsources HR Operation

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest "firm" to embrace the outsourcing of its human resource (HR) functions is none other than the State of Florida, which has...
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Pensions Loom in Boeing Labor Talks

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Company and the machinists' union that represents 25,000 of its workers have brought in a federal mediator after labor talks bogged down...
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Board Pay Packages Soar

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Board member actions - and inactions - have been coming under increased scrutiny of late - while compensation for their actions has continued...
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CSC to Workers: See You in Nine Months

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a telling sign of the times, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has asked the firm's 66,000 employees to take some time off -...
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Mass Layoffs on the Mend in Q2

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While there were 1,754 mass layoffs covering 392,338 people during the second quarter of 2002, the figures represent a continued improvement from the...
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IBM Cuts Official – But Well Underway

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After months of rumors and media speculation, International Business Machines (IBM) says it is cutting more than 15,600 jobs in its computer-services and...
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GenXers Financially Focused

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GenXers may have been portrayed as financial neer-do-wells, with better things to do than worry about careers or saving, but a new survey...
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More Laid-Off Execs Go It Alone

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Laid off managers are increasingly being bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and have started their own company, a survey found.
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GoldK Lays Off 15

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing a decreased employee need due to increased productivity efficiencies in its operations, the GoldK online retirement plan provider this week laid off...