A new Web site bills itself as your own personal criminal-records database that, among other things, can be used to run checks on applicants as part of checking references and other info. But does it work?

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Tags: applicants, CriminalSearches, PeopleFinders, References

Anyone in the HR or benefits field knows how health coverage works. But what about the rest of your employees or new HR staffers? Here’s a good Web site to get them up to speed.

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Tags: aetna, benefits, fsa, health coverage, healthcare, HSA

Alert your employees: Consumers Union - the people who put out the respected “Consumer Reports” magazine - has a Web site that offers free guidance and advice for picking the right prescription medicine. It just might help everyone save on health costs.

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Tags: ambien, consumer reports, consumers union, insomnia, prescription

If you’re trying to figure out how to make your company look attractive to job-hunters, take a look at what this company did, and then steal this idea (but don’t say we told you to).

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Tags: Ernst & Young, interview, Web

Keeping up with changing employment laws in your state is an almost-impossible task. So let someone else do it for you.

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Tags: employment laws, lawyers, state laws

“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” This time it might be true, at least for one U.S. Dept. of Labor Web site that points you toward help in figuring out disability accommodations – and how to avoid complaints and lawsuits that arise from accommodation mistakes.

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Tags: accommodations, disabilities, U.S. Labor Dept.