Benefits

December 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones & Company has agreed to amend one of its insurance policies to allow for coverage of prescription contraceptives, according to Washington-based...

December 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifty-nine percent of employees are purchasing voluntary benefits at work and 61% are interested in having their employer provide a wider array of...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third of workers have made a change to their retirement asset allocation in the past quarter - and nearly half...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early indications are that employers are increasingly interested in consumer-driven health-care alternatives - and not just because it saves them money, according to...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ninety-three percent of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) report a large correlation between the quality of their companies' health benefits and the strength of...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When executives at US multinational companies gaze into their crystal balls, many don't see a lot to sing for joy about, a new...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-eight percent of employers are concerned that modest pay increases may be contributing to lowered employee morale, according to a survey by Deloitte...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're buried under an ever-growing swarm of emails - you're one of the few, according to a new survey.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Airlines' filing for Chapter 11 also includes plans to cut corporate officers' pay by an average 11% and that of salaried and...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average 2003 salary hike is higher than 2002, but not by much, according to a new survey.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what has become something of a holiday "tradition," two major personal computer makers are sending workers home without pay for the December...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private employers spent a total of $334.5 billion on health services and supplies in 2000, and nearly three-quarters of that total was for...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rising costs and reduced availability have continued to erode health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollment in the Lone Star State.

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) While many Americans fret about how to pay for long-term care when they grow old, few have taken steps to deal with that problem,...

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - British blue chip user group The Infrastructure Forum (Tif) warns that those "out of office" emails may tip thieves off to your vacation...

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Catholic Charities Maine is taking the city of Portland to court over a requirement to offer domestic partner benefits to its employees.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While most retirees are expected to keep their employer-provided health coverage over the next 36 months, many retirees will have to pay more...

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination agency is echoing calls it made after 9/11 reminding employers not to discriminate against foreign workers.

December 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The good news about third-quarter productivity turns out to be even better than government economists first thought.

December 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors are already working on their priorities for 2003 - a list that is heavy on helping participants, avoiding lawsuits and managing...