Pink Slip

As this year's field of Republican presidential candidates heads into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, plenty of focus is on the leader of the pack -- Mitt Romney. The one-time Massachusetts governor is on familiar territory in the Granite State, and polls show Romney coasting to an easy win. That's despite ...

By Tony Morrison Getting laid off stinks. A lot. It stinks for the company, it stinks for the management, and it especially stinks for the employees. In today's economy, many Americans are dealing with the consequences of layoffs each and every day. Today, it's not uncommon for one person to be the victim ...

Massachusetts accountant Carl Sorabella had every reason to believe that his employer would grant his request for a more flexible schedule so that he could assist his wife, who had just been diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer and given only months to live. After all, he'd been with Haynes Management in ...

Just what you need: One more thing to worry about when your spouse gets laid off. A recent study shows that even if you keep your job, if your husband, wife or domestic partner gets a pink slip, your work will be probably be affected as well. The study, conducted by Associate Professor Maw-Der Foo of ...

More than 600,000 unemployed Americans decided that they were just not looking for jobs in June. But what if the companies that laid them off wanted them back? Is swallowing pride worth a paycheck? A survey conducted by Right Management, the world's largest talent and career consulting company, found that 18 ...