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Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has furloughed 262 employees and eliminated another 200 vacant positions within West Penn Allegheny Health System, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.

The National Labor Relations Board has stepped into contract negotiations between Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Wash., and an employee union, requesting the hospital revert to a previous version of a contract to avoid a formal complaint from the…

A report released by the Louisiana Civil Service Commission last week found that the hospitals within Baton Rouge-based Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division laid off 2,340 employees in the 2012-13 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to…

A new blog post from global employee assessment firm Select International, based in Pittsburgh, highlights five ways organizations can fail at human capital management.

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Here are six statistics on jobs in the healthcare sector in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Slightly more than half — 51 percent — of healthcare employers plan to hire full-time workers in the next six months of the year, according to CareerBuilder and MiracleWorkers.com's most recent national survey.

Orange, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health plans to lay of 37 employees across two hospitals, according to a report by The Press Democrat.

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