Benefits

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the unemployment rate at 5.7% and an economic recovery still struggling to take hold, this year's estimated three million new graduates will...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recruiters offered fewer relocation packages over the first three months of 2002, continuing a decline that began last year, the latest Job Market...

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former senior executive at Advanced Micro Devices has sued his former employer, alleging he was forced out after the September 11 attacks...

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A county audit revealed the final cost of pension and wage payments for Milwaukee County employees to be more than five times higher...

April 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) unveiled a new Web page containing information on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs for federal government agencies.

April 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although fewer and fewer companies are offering traditional pension plans in their benefits packages, they're still filling their benefits bags with a host...

April 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The Department Of Labor's recent decision to formally sanction electronic transfers of plan information, including Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs), has been applauded by industry insiders.

April 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The first industry-specific guidelines to reduce ergonomic-related injuries and illnesses will be developed for nursing homes, the US Department of Labor (DoL) announced.

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate executives believe that their companies need to be faster and more agile in order to succeed, and that the HR department plays...

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small businesses are less likely to offer health insurance benefits than larger ones, and small employers that don't offer health plans are also...

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 58% of affluent Americans surveyed, who are still working, participate in retirement plans such as 401Ks, 403bs and Keoghs, a new study...

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A whopping 85% of employees believe that their employer should offer pre-negotiated savings on health-care services that are not being covered by their...

April 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the experiences of the giant California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) prove as much of a bellwether as they have in the...

April 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Global Crossing employee has asked a bankruptcy judge to grant him access to a variety of documents about the firm's retirement...

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of workplace injuries dipped slightly last year, according to the Department of Labor - but not at the pace that they...

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though it is getting more expensive to do so, virtually all employers participating in a recent survey say they offer employee health-care...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Fannie Mae Foundation has developed a personal finance curriculum which may help encourage participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to thriving in a marketplace that seems to recreate itself all the time, top executives can rest assured that most...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care continues to be the sector in which Global 500 corporations rely the most on Web sites as a recruiting tool with...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of the job cuts announced in the retail sector in the last year occurred after the September terrorist attacks, according to a...