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Family Leave Laws Help Employees
Employees who need to bond with a new baby or take care of a severely ill relative may find it difficult to meet both their demands as a caregiver and their demands of the workplace. Paid family leave is an option that many policy makers are promoting to help those employees who find themselves squeezed between competing needs.

How Management Can Respond to Unions
Are your employees trying to form a union? Do you have a union in place? Would you like to see a union depart? Here are some tips for management about unions.

How to Recruit and Hire the Best: Employees
Want to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your hiring process.

How to Interview Potential Employees
The job interview is a key step to assess the candidate's cultural fit for a job and workplace. Here are some ways you can get to know your candidate on a more personal basis.

Employee Selection and Hiring
Learn how to select and hire the best employees for your open positions. Selection and evaluation techniques are explored that help you pick among qualified candidates.

Downsizing and Layoff Strategies
Your organization is either thinking about or has initiated layoffs or downsizing. These strategies will minimize the damage to those employees you lay off and the layoff survivors who remain.

When Employment Ends: Layoffs, Job Termination, Firing, Resignations
Employment ends for positive reasons such as a new job, a resignation or retirement. Employment also ends for more negative reasons such as layoffs, downsizing, job termination or firing. Whatever the reason for the job change, help is available to aid you in the transition.

Tips and Tools for Employee Retention
Employee retention, especially of your most desirable employees, is a key challenge in organizations. Use these tips, tools and ideas to learn strategies that will help you retain your best staff.