Benefits

November 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. has agreed to a $16.5-million settlement of an excessive fee lawsuit in federal court in Illinois.

 

November 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey looking at the working styles of men and women reveals that 45% of working women agreed with the statement that...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the economic downturn's effect on the retirement plans of 50-something investors, only 23% of respondents to a recent survey are salting away...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who said she had to wear adult diapers to her job with a construction company because it would not provide portable...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee of a dead Italian businessman forged a bogus copy of a will on the back of a collar belonging to the...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sibson Consulting is seeking to evaluate employer health and productivity programs and measure the impact of various strategies and practices by surveying health...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maybe it happens all year every year, but it seems, at least, that workplace environments and dynamics were studied more than ever in...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As they have elsewhere in the retirement plan market, 401(k) auto plan features have taken hold in a big way among mid- to...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. received final approval on Monday of a settlement in which it will pay between $65 million and $85 million to...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced the settlement of a sex discrimination class action lawsuit for $1,025,000 against Lawry's Restaurants,...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While administrators were given the go-ahead by a recently passed bill to implement a mutual fund window within the federal employees' Thrift Savings...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 83% of Dallas-Fort Worth-area employers do not plan to trim their benefit packages while 37% anticipate improvement to their benefit packages.

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service is working on a final revenue procedure for Section 403(b) prototype plans that takes into account comments received, James...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) is reporting that U.S. Representative John Shadegg (R-Arizona), during a press conference on Wednesday, urged Congress to eliminate...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a working lunch sponsored by Cammack LaRhette Consulting, Fred Reish of the law firm Reish & Reicher said the focus in the...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Austin (Texas) City Manager Marc Ott has informed the City Council that COBRA-like benefits will be made available to the same-sex domestic partners...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are showing unprecedented generosity in providing Thanksgiving holiday leave, while the level of gift giving is at a 16-year low, according to...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American workers may have a new reason to prefer setting the clocks back to end daylight savings time over setting the clocks forward...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey of small business owners or managers shows fewer of them planning to give end-of-year bonuses or gifts to their workers.

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the covered Americans who have consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), workers with employee-only coverage have seen their annual employer contributions decrease, while those...