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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Work-life issues Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Tennessee Bank Makes It Easy for Its Employees Who Want to Adopt or Foster Children 2009 Employee Benefits Survey Report Concerns Voiced About Integration of Watson Wyatt and Towers Perrin The Push for Time Off Work Gains in Many States [Official Guidance] Letter on Making Work Pay Credit; Issues Related to Statutes Other Than Contained in Internal Revenue Code (PDF) New Study Suggests That Employees Value Their Total Benefits Offering More Than Cash [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules That Unused Vacation Is Earned Wages, Despite Company Policy Otherwise IRS Suggests Workers/Retirees Check Withholding Levels in Light of the Making Work Pay Credit New Mercer Survey Reveals Ongoing Impact on HR of Global Economic Downturn Towers Perrin + Watson Wyatt = Towers Watson & Co. [Guidance Overview] Employers Must Provide Paid Leave to New Jersey Employees Effective July 1, 2009 Good News in Hard Times: Indianapolis Company Shares $2M in Bonuses with All Employees [Guidance Overview] Colorado Expands Parental Leave (PDF) Workscape's Annual Benefits Study: 2009 Results' Public and Private Sector Compensation: What is Affordable in This Recession and Beyond? (PDF) Company-Sponsored Retirement Plans More Important Than Ever What Businesses Can Do About Swine Flu [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Makes It More Difficult for Employees to Prove Age Discrimination Claims (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Prove Age Discrimination in Employment Actions [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Decides that Title VII Mixed-Motives Analysis Does Not Apply to Age Discrimination Claims Employers Add Financial Components to Wellness Programs [Opinion] ERISA in the Crisis Zone Employees Appreciate Lighter Schedule During Summer Months, New Survey Suggests Benefits for Ex-City Employees Examined in San Diego [Guidance Overview] Proposed IRS Paradoxical Changes to Tax Rules for Employer-Provided Cell Phones [Guidance Overview] Clarification and Softening of IRS 'Crackdown' on Taxation of Business Cell Phones and PDAs (PDF) Work-Sharing May Help Companies Avoid Layoffs [Guidance Overview] New Colorado Leave Requirements Scheduled to Accompany the Upcoming Fall School Year (PDF) Study of Wealthy Countries Shows Only U.S. and Australia Have No Paid Parental Leave Rights for Fathers or Mothers IRS Says Cell Phone Law Obsolete Government Work Is No Longer the Job of Last Resort Society for Human Resource Management Offers New Approach on Employee Leave SHRM, Democrats Tangle Over Paid Sick-Days Bill [Guidance Overview] IRS Request for Comments on Three Alternatives for Substantiating Business Use of Employer-Provided Cell Phones Last Week's House Committee Hearing on Family and Paid Sick Leave: Some Links The Search for the Next Workplace Perk (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Comments Requested on Proposed Methods for Substantiating the Business Use of Employer-Provided Cell Phones (PDF) Rising Commuting Costs Prompts More Employer Help [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules Employers Must Pay Terminated Employees for Any Unused Vacation Time Working Mothers Still Face a Struggle to Breast-Feed [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Court Takes Tough Stance on Vacation Pay Milwaukee Paid Sick Leave Found Unconstitutional Hearing on the Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Act, and the Healthy Families Act Health Benefits Costs 7% of Total Private Employer Compensation Costs Eighth Circuit Instructs District Courts on Attorneys' Fees [Opinion] Workplace Flexibility versus Unpaid Leave [Guidance Overview] Nevada Expands Parental Leave for Employees Attending School-Related Activities Businesses Dispute Need for Federal Mandated Sick Leave House Passes Paid Parental Leave Bill for Federal Employees [Guidance Overview] Colorado Employers Must Cope with New Employee Leave Mandate [Guidance Overview] Paid Parental Leave Passes House of Representatives Recent Modifications of Employee Benefits Data in the National Compensation Survey [Guidance Overview] Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Employee Access to 'Other Types of Benefits,' 1979-2008 [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts -- Human Resources -- Updated May 28, 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Summer Vacation Leave Policies Getting it Right in Reductions in Force: How to Minimize Legal Risks (PDF) Paid Sick Days Would Benefit Workers and Employers Legislation Introduced Mandating Paid Vacation [Guidance Overview] Preparing for a Pandemic Outbreak: Lessons Learned from the H1N1 Flu [Opinion] Thoughts on AT&T v. 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