Benefits

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than eight out of 10 (82%) plan sponsors believe plan participants will be adversely affected if mutual funds are forced to accept...

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers employed at large- and medium-sized companies are more satisfied with their total benefits package than their counterparts at smaller organizations.

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A quarter of HR professionals are nervous about hiring recovering drug addicts or alcoholics even though nearly nine in 10 (89%) say treatment...

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia-based consumer finance company has been hit with a second age-discrimination lawsuit alleging it gave preference to younger workers.

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Without any changes, Americans will be shy by at least $45 billion by 2030 between the value of their current savings and the...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just like David Letterman, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has its own "Top 10" list - in this case containing the...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All work and no overtime pay claims at a Plano, Texas call center have landed AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in legal hot water.

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - David Bronner, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), says the governor's pension proposals could launch a war...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A shift in focus for call centers from service only to a sales generation tool are forcing employers to increasingly confront issues such...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While participant 401(k) balances and are participant rates continued to decline last year, encouraging news could be found for plan sponsors looking toward...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the rate of health-care cost hikes is expected to slow somewhat in 2004, prescription drugs remain as the key cost villain in...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The holiday spirit is apparently making employers more generous with their year-end leave policies, but that doesn't necessarily mean weeks of holiday partying...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As another year of double-digit health-care cost increases loom, plan sponsors are employing a variety of approaches to deal with the challenge.

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are stepping up efforts to attract and retain key talent for a good reason: business strategies for success are increasingly becoming people...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sure, maybe George Pavlovsky walked into his office drunk and looking for his bosses while toting a loaded sawed-off shotgun - but is...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit costs continue to rise, but they are a smaller proportion of the total package now than a decade ago, according to new...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seven percent of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) plan to add to their accounting and finance headcount in the first quarter of 2004.

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants state health care programs to remove from their preferred prescription drug lists any companies that limit their supplies...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the many changes arising from the Medicare reform bill are developments that will mean a financial boost for certain employer-sponsored retiree health...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of managers looking for employees via a newspaper ad remained steady in October.