IRS Issues Final 409A(a) Relief Procedures
December 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just over a year to the day after Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials first proposed...
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Watson Wyatt Finds CEO Pay Changes Prior to Financial Crisis
December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compensation committees at U.S. companies had been making significant adjustments to how they compensate their...
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U.S. Employers Offer Less Severance Pay
December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new global study has found that employees laid off in the United States earn...
Wall Street in Turmoil Offers Executive Hiring Opportunities
December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CTPartners' 14th annual list of hot executive jobs reflects a shift from volume hiring to...
Court Lets Stand Arbitrator Award under Dispute Resolution Plan
December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has let stand an arbitrator's...
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Employers Still Shell Out Most for Retirement Benefits
November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement benefits remain employers' single largest sector of benefits spending, but health benefit costs are...
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Bailed Out AIG Puts Exec Comp Restrictions in Place
November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the beneficiary of a government bailout package, imposed its own...
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Economic Turmoil Likely to Take Toll on Executive Comp Programs
November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's economic turmoil will take a significant toll on U.S. employers' annual bonus and...
Senators to Treasury Chief: Don't Forget Exec. Comp. Limits
November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of mostly Democratic U.S. Senators has demanded that Bush Administration officials follow through...
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New Hires Can Make Poor Performers Look Like Prizes
November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers still looking for talent find hiring new people to be more daunting than managing...
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HR Generalist Ranks in Top 25 Recession-Proof Jobs
November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human Resources Generalist crept into the Number 25 spot in Jobfox's listing of the top...
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BlackRock Joins Job-Cutting Financial Services Firms
November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded asset manager in the U.S., has announced layoffs for the...
AIG Gets Stern Warning over Executive Bonuses
November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter to American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Liddy, New York...
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McDonald's Assistant Managers Sue for Overtime Pay
November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An amended collective action complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for...
Putnam Axes a Dozen Portfolio Managers
November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments is axing positions from its workforce, the company announced.
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U.S. Multinationals Reconsider Salary Increase Budgets
November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Hewitt indicates the majority (51%) of U.S. multinational organizations do not...
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Veterans Report Difficulty Finding Jobs
November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-in-five veterans (17%) looking for a job said it took more than six months...
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Telecom Jobs See 2008 Comp Hikes
November 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several positions in the telecommunications industry saw sizeable increases in compensation during 2008, according to...
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Canadian Employers Slash 2009 Salary Hike Budgets
November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Struggling with a weak economy, many Canadian employers are cutting the salary increase budgets put...
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Simply Hired Helps Employers with Diversity Efforts
November 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Job search engine Simply Hired has announced that job seekers can now refine their job...