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August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies can easily steer clear of the $400 per employee cost in lost work and medical expenses they usually have to bear from...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's no relief in sight for plan sponsors when it comes to healthcare costs, according to a new report from the Segal Company.

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're working more, but liking it less, you're not alone.

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers and job seekers responding to a recent poll aren't painting a bright picture of this year's job market.

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 2,041 mass layoffs in July 2002 involving 245,457 workers, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the jobless claims numbers appeared to wilt in last week's heat, slipping slightly to 389,000, a drop of 2,000 from the week...

August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has taken a step toward (re)filling its executive suite.

August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monster announced that Chrysler Group is buying a number of different recruiting products from the online recruiting company.

August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric has classified certain workers at its aircraft engine unit as salaried employees so it can wriggle out of paying them overtime...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest "firm" to embrace the outsourcing of its human resource (HR) functions is none other than the State of Florida, which has...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Research & Management Company has tapped C. Kim Goodwin as its new chief investment officer - equities.

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors pulled money out of mutual funds in the second quarter, they poured a net $4.57 billion in assets into hedge funds,...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Board member actions - and inactions - have been coming under increased scrutiny of late - while compensation for their actions has continued...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the often intensely competitive world of hedge funds, hedge fund group Glenwood Capital Investments, LLC has lured Mustafa Jama away from rival...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rich severance packages could give potential Hershey Foods suitors indigestion, according to published reports.

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Company and the machinists' union that represents 25,000 of its workers have brought in a federal mediator after labor talks bogged down...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group survey found that regular workers receive two-thirds of the options granted at publicly held high-tech companies.

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a telling sign of the times, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has asked the firm's 66,000 employees to take some time off -...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds' July performance was in the minus column, but it continued to outdistance the performance record of major US equity indexes, according...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sizable 0.7% hike in medical care costs helped nudge consumer inflation 0.1% higher in July, the US Department of Labor (DoL) reported.