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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 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 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 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.

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary results of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) show a total of 5,071 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Social networking sites may be popular these days, but a new survey points out one area where bringing them into the workplace could...

August 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a new flu season looming, government officials are asking employers to let sick and at-risk employees stay home.

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 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey found that while nearly half of U.S. employers surveyed had undertaken cost-cutting measures such as layoffs and...

August 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fact that 20% of participants in defined contribution plans administered by The Vanguard Group invested their entire nest eggs in an asset...

August 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wichita aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft has announced plans to suspend company contributions to its 401(k) plans and will raise employee contributions to health...

August 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt's 2009 HR Technology Trends Survey found that 37% of companies have made talent management a higher priority as a result of...

August 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new CareerBuilder survey has found that 45% of employers rely on social networking Web sites to find out more about job candidates.