Benefits

January 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half (47%) of employees recently polled say they either would like to or already do participate in a workplace wellness program so...

January 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Spokane, Washington-based Sterling Savings Bank and its holding company, Sterling Financial Corporation, over company stock investments in...

January 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Researchers studying how best to get women and low-income workers to save for retirement were able to achieve a 56% enrollment hike among...

January 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WACO Community Schools of Wayland, Iowa, will continue offering the state’s 403(b) retirement plan to employees, after staff spoke out against its elimination.

January 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Christmas Day attempted bombing of an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight is not putting much of a crimp in business professionals’ travel plans, according to...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Callan Associates finds DC plan sponsors saying that reviewing plan-related expenses was the most important fiduciary action they took over the past year.

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Augsburg Fortress, the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is terminating its defined benefit retirement plan effective March 5.

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report says actual participant behavior is more varied and volatile than most target-date funds assume.

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has added new guidance material to its Web site designed to help explain...

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer is urging many of its clients to consider offering health care claims advocacy services for its employee plan participants.

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Mercer study of global financial organizations’ executive pay practices found widespread changes in light of government pressure for pay reforms.

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new survey indicates that the economic downturn hasn’t done much to shake up the retirement plans of some women.

January 9, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The board that oversees Colorado's troubled state pension plan has approved a proposal by lawmakers to fix it.

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – With the prospect looming of the imposition of a federal medical device tax, an Elyria, Ohio, home-health products firm has suspended its 401(k)...

January 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Effective January 1, management of Sweden's various state-administered pension plans has moved to a single entity.

January 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The American Benefits Council (ABC) says strict requirements on employer-sponsored health coverage are likely to lead more companies to pay penalties rather than...

January 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A man believed to be an employee of a St. Louis manufacturing plant, a plaintiff in a 401(k) excessive fee class-action lawsuit against...

January 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that 93,277 workplace discrimination charges were filed with the agency nationwide during Fiscal Year 2009...