Benefits

April 7, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New survey results from Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples, Inc., suggest that having a fully stocked kitchen, with food, coffee and...

April 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland lawmakers agreed to state pension and retiree health benefit changes that aim to increase the state’s funding of its pension system from...

April 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American workers who are emotionally disconnected from their work and workplace -- known as "actively disengaged" workers -- rate their lives more poorly...

April 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has affirmed a $1 million judgment against Whirlpool Corporation in a sex and race harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S....

April 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A study by the ING Retirement Research Institute found less than half of respondents (48%) indicated that they feel “in control” of their...

April 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The North Dakota House has rejected a proposal to add a banker and stockbroker to the state Investment Board.

April 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Reminder, benefit plan sponsors and service providers, April 4 could be a big day in your world.

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Volunteer fire companies in the Town of Clarence, New York, violated federal law by preventing older firefighters from accruing service credits because of...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has released the actual bill language of seven separate pension reform measures, and announced five other specific...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An average 22% of eligibles participated in state and local government plans during 2010, down from 29% a year before, according to a...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Financial Literacy Center working paper suggests that overall, one in ten plan loans results in a default, and eight of ten workers...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument on June 8 for the...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Archdiocese of Boston chancellor David W. Smith disclosed that he has asked Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Secretary of State William...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two DeKalb County educators have filed a lawsuit against the school district and board for failing to make contributions over the last two...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New findings by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggest that lower-income workers are far more likely to say they would reduce their...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Twenty-eight percent of employers have hired full-time permanent workers in Q111, the highest such reading in three years.

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Bank of America won the dismissal of a bias lawsuit by black financial advisers at the former Merrill Lynch who claimed they received...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The annual Fidelity Investments estimate of the retirement health-care costs for a 65-year-old couple fell back 8% to $230,000, driven by Medicare changes...

March 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has released the first annual report of self-insured health benefit plans and financial information on their employer...

March 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is co-sponsoring a Webcast on April 12 to help women with retirement planning issues.