Benefits

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers eyeing early retirement expect to have health insurance coverage, even though few have given much thought to how that coverage will be...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While a measure passed out of the US House of Representatives would allow Americans to buy some prescription drugs from Canada and elsewhere...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While employers are certain to continue competing head-on for talented employees, not every company has properly positioned itself to make the best use...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The two most often cited reasons for HR outsourcing are being able to use a greater pool of expert employees as well as...

July 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health Maintenance Organizations (HM0) are forecast to have an 11% rate increase in 2005, down 3.8% from 2004's projections.

July 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination agency has ruled that aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin Corp., effectively sat on its hands while a racially hostile environment for...

July 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The use of corporate employee assistance program via e-mail have risen 25% in the first half of 2004, compared with the same period...

July 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than four in 10 (43%) corporations with more than 20,000 workers assign employees to read the firm's outgoing e-mail.

July 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Florida Governor Jeb Bush has long been a proponent of outsourcing state jobs to the private sector, state agencies interested in...

July 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Health Savings Account (HSA) alone may not be enough to cover the expected costs of health care in retirement.

July 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge delayed a sex discrimination trial against Morgan Stanley this week to "consider and resolve legal objections" related to witnesses in...

July 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pfizer Inc has launched a new initiative to provide prescription drugs to the nation's uninsured.

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sending out at least some HR functions for outsourcing allows HR officials to better focus on important corporate strategic functions.

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under an agreement struck between the union representing employees and Dow Jones & Co. Inc, workers will have to start paying for health-care...

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Virginia employers facing the prospect of a new law forcing them to give workers Saturdays or Sundays off as a "day of rest"...

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most employers are looking to bring more fresh-faced college grads on board in 2003-04 than they did in 2002-03.

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alabama Governor Bob Riley wants the state to take steps to reduce the cost of state employee health benefits.

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most employers are looking to bring more fresh-faced college grads on board in 2003-04 than they did in 2002-03.

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of hiring mangers looking for new talent and related online job recruitment activity continued to grow in June, representing the sixth...

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Virginia employers are scrambling to figure out how to comply with a new state statute requiring companies to give employees Saturdays or...