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August 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, an organization within the Department of Commerce, the average federal employee now makes $79,197, not including...

August 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the next 12 months, more than half of employers polled plan to hire full-time employees, four in 10 will hire contract, temporary...

September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Segal Company estimate indicates that health care cost increases for most managed care plans are expected to rise from 10.2% to...

August 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Israeli university student has opened a Twitter site where prayers can be sent for placement in the crevices of Jerusalem's Western Wall,...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private pension systems in other countries may offer an illuminating glimpse into potential plan design and operations that could help current problems afflicting...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced the settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis Rams, the city's...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Segal Company survey finds that state and local governments have responded to the recession by changing hiring and pay practices rather than...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a new report, Mercer suggests plan sponsors may want to prepare for the possibility of retirement plan limits dropping for 2010.

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Inc. will pay $1.72 million and provide significant remedial relief to settle claims of what U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man who repeated a gag from the "Seinfeld" show while at work has been fired for sexual harassment, according to the DesMoines...

August 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) from the Segal Company in response to GASB's call for public comment about...

August 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report finds that national reforms that slow health care cost increases by 1% to 1.5% per year would yield what the...

August 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AT&T discriminated against older workers by refusing to rehire them because they had retired early under a company early retirement offering, a new...

August 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - QVC employees fired over alleged irregularities in their 401(k) withdrawals are complaining they were treated unfairly and that they were driven to seek...

August 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overall, 65% of the over 400 stock plan administrators in U.S. public companies surveyed said that an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) was...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New data released from Fidelity Investments shows that whether an investor is a pessimist or optimist may also indicate how prepared he or...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - That's what employers want Washington to do to promote Americans' retirement security, according to a recent report.

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - QVC officials have completed their investigation into alleged employee misconduct in taking 401(k) loans, but declined to say if they found any fraud...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has asked a state court judge to declare the giant pension fund exempt from state-ordered worker...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against a Queens, New York-based supermarket group.