US jobless will receive benefits for longer

The US Senate has voted to extend long-term unemployment benefits in order to provide a fiscal stimulus to the economy. American unemployment benefits usually stop after a person has been out of work for 26 weeks, and while a temporary measure to pay benefits after this date had been operating during the recession, this had lapsed.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School