Thursday, November 6, 2008

human resource and benefits

Human resource constantly changes with the times and we have to keep up. Employees lives are affected everyday by the way human resource view employees and the requirement for a position and employees have to constantly train for the new markets or they will be left behind.
I found this information today "The pace of change involving 'back office' functions is increasing and HR services are being assigned to implement re-structures, create new job profiles and supply regular performance management data".
http://reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7KXLK4?OpenDocument
According to the biz journal "Manufacturing companies are being phased out more and more everyday and the jobs are being shipped overseas and the sad part of it is our government give tax breaks to the companies that ship those jobs".
I read where "hiring in the manufacturing and service sectors is at the lowest rate in four years". But we are still allowing our jobs to be sent overseas and yes our government is giving companies a tax break to ship away our jobs and I am at the stage where I believe in order for me to get a job I will have to move to foreign country. Our wages and benefits are being cut employers asking us to pay more out of pocket for insurance while they cut our pay. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/11/03/daily79.html
"health insurance costs have soared more than 25 percent over the past two years. health insurance premium increases for many businesses in the region in 2009 are slated to be between 8 percent and 15 percent, brokers say". What is a working person to do? when will there be some relief. Our new president said he will step in and revamp our health care system because its draining our pocket books.

"health care coverage for individual employees increased 53.6 percent from 2000 to 2007", according to a new study released in October by Families USA, a health care advocacy group.
“To cut costs, businesses either have to reduce benefits or require greater contributions,” said Kathy Simmons, CEO of Group Benefit Services. Kathy have the right idea but its going to take a true miracle to fix the health care system.
People are afraid to go to the doctor because they have no insurance and cannot afford to pay for it out of pocket so they are dying in the street with no help to recover from the huge health insurance problem we are going to fall by the wayside.

"Companies are increasing copayments by about $10 or $20 for doctor visits and increasing fees for hospitalization. Some companies are asking employees to pay more for coverage of a spouse or family member.
http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/othercities/baltimore/stories/2008/11/03/story7.html?b=1225688400^1725434&brthrs=1

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