Reuters - Consumer confidence deteriorated in August to its lowest in a year on concerns about a softening labor market and market turmoil stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis, a business research group said on Tuesday.

No need to lift GSE investment caps: Bernanke (Reuters)

Reuters - Regulators need not lift investment caps on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in order to rescue troubled subprime borrowers, but new loan products could help some avoid foreclosure, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter released on Wednesday.

Layoff of Workforce Made Easy. Sometimes an employee becomes a liability the business cannot afford to support. You can layoff the jobholder over one incident. o Asks to see and copy her workers file. The jobholder reduces the workplace performance of coworkers through inappropriate behavior at work. Today, many companies have fired their personnel in various ways, from text messages to memos. The human resource workers may have to assess the circumstance and try to figure out what may be ailing the worker. You're now open to illegal discrimination claims from the "bad" ex-personnel. When the manager has no documentation and gives no legitimate reason for terminating, the courts typically favor the jobholder. Next, explain any documentation of employee counseling sessions, special training provided to resolve the worker problems. You'll be under a microscope as the remaining workforce will carefully watch everything you do.

When it comes to creating dimissing disabled employee polices, you must understand that the individual may have more grounds for claiming bias: the disability he or she has. Now, here's the most glaring omission in the worker layoff literature -. When its environment changes, the company should change or it won't survive. To make matters worse, courts typically favor the worker in these unlawful termination suits.