Employment News for the Week of September 18

This week, while you were planning your Patrick Swayze movie marathon,  apologizing to Taylor Swift, or curing blindness with a tooth, here’s what you may have missed in the world of hiring and recruiting…

• Stiletto heels: The latest workplace casualty?
• The Yale student murder is just one more incident in growing wave of workplace violence
• Don’t call it a comeback…yet: Unemployment claim filings dip.
• Retirement is so two years ago.
• P&G has a new business strategy: Love. (Okay, not really. But it’s close.)
• Employee fights for his right to weight loss surgery…and wins.
• The manager’s dilemma: NFL version.
• The White House says the stimulus saved one million jobs. (Spoiler alert: Not everyone’s buying it.)
• Sure, a mock holdup always seems like a good idea at the time.
• Companies try on free career counseling as business strategy.
• Colleges are cutting back, too. They’re just finding different ways to do it.

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