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In part one of this three-part series on retirement savings, we reviewed how to best manage a 401(k). But as today's companies continue to combat the tough economy by downsizing, part two explores what to do with your employer-offered retirement plan if you lose your job.

What can a man like Pixar genius John Lasseter, whose movies have made billions, teach us regular folks about the troubles of workaday life? Turns out, Lasseter has shared one rite of passage that too many of us have been through recently: He was fired -- from his dream job.

Social media played a key role in the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and more dictatorial regimes are facing protesters who use the Internet as a weapon. But could the power of social networking create similar revolutionary changes in the corporate world?

DailyFinance's legal correspondent Abigail Field has avoided weighing in on the Debrahlee Lorenzana case -- until now. But its time to look at the facts: Whether the Citigroup banker was "too sexy" isn't the point. The question is, did Citigroup create a hostile, discriminatory workplace?

On Monday, Aaron Siebers limped into his job at a Blockbuster (BBI) video store in Edgewater, Colo. Bleeding from a deep stab wound in his lower leg and superficial cuts on his face and body, he claimed that he had been assaulted by three "skinheads or hispanic males" who were "dressed in black."...

Just weeks after he confessed on his show to having had two sexual affairs with female staffers, talk-show host David Letterman is still on CBS's airwaves, late-night after late-night. CBS officials have said there haven't been any sexual harassment complaints about the gap-toothed comic -- and...

Oh, those kooky kiwis. In this story out of New Zealand, a woman in a healthcare administration office was fired after her supervisors deemed her e-mail correspondence "confrontational" because of her use (some would say overuse) of capital letters, colored and boldface fonts. This New Zealand...

Despite the success of the Cash for Clunkers program and other government incentives to boost consumer spending, are you optimistic about the state of the job market? wowOwow's work, relationship and money expert Paula Forman isn't. Forman predicts that the unemployment rate -- now 9.4% in the...

Recent unemployment statistics are somewhat frightening: last week, the Labor Department reported that new applications for unemployment insurance had jumped by 38,000 over the previous week. The number of first-time claims, 407,000, was the highest that it's been since immediately after Hurricane...