Benefits

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...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Teachers' salaries barely kept pace with inflation in the 1990s, increasing by only 31% compared to the wages of full-time workers, which the...

April 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department will develop voluntary guidelines for certain industries to cut down on workplace injuries, replacing the Clinton-era regulations rejected by Congress...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the economy rebounds with even half the vigor of past recoveries, the US could return to full employment within 12 months, research...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McDonald's Corporation's recent decision to discontinue its automatic enrollment program raised a few eyebrows. After all, the famed franchise was the first to...

April 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers seeking to attract and retain women need to emphasize results and not the hours spent in the office, a consulting firm says.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite Coca-Cola's $192.5 million race bias settlement, a dissident group of African-American coke workers are pressing ahead to have their claims decided by...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lies on job applications during the last quarter of 2001 jumped by 20% with 30-something men most likely to tell tall employment tales,...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Support staff members don't get much respect.

April 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Fatigue can be dangerous - at least that's what the findings of Circadian Technology's most recent Shiftwork Practices survey suggest.

April 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small businesses with at least 10 employees, that enjoy low personnel turnover, are more likely to offer health-care coverage.

April 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In March, layoff announcements at US firms fell to the lowest level in 10 months, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half the information supplied on employment applications differs from that supplied by past employers, a study from ADP Screening and Selection Services...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smoking in Floridian workplaces would be illegal under a proposed constitutional amendment approved unanimously by the state Supreme Court last week.

March 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American worker has been through a lot in the past two years - but their benefits priorities remain remarkably consistent, according to...

March 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second UK bank will back-date pension benefits for its part-time workers.

March 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hit in recent months with a handful of employee discrimination claims, Ford Motor Co. has settled one of the diversity lawsuits that charged...

March 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HSBC, one of Britain's largest banks, will grant back-dated pension benefits to part-time employees for stints at the bank in the last 26...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care costs were up by about 30% in 2001 compared to seven years ago.

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of Americans say that getting health care they want is getting harder - mostly because of cost, according to a...