Benefits

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 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.

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 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Children are bundles of joy, but new data shows they are a bundle of expense too.

August 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis from Hewitt Associates reveals that COBRA enrollments have doubled since the U.S. government enacted a new subsidy to help pay...

August 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHPs) in the U.S. have surpassed HMO plans in covered employees, according to preliminary results released by United Benefit...

August 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF was selected, along with four other providers, for the Iowa Department of Administrative Services Statewide 457(b) and 401(a) Plans.

August 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dell Inc. has agreed to settle a federal gender discrimination lawsuit for $9.1 million.

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firms of Berger & Montague, P.C., Keller Rohrback, LLP and Ann Miller, LLC announced that a settlement has been proposed in...

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results from the Employee Ownership Foundation's 18th Annual ESOP Economic Performance Survey show that 88.5% of ESOP companies outperformed the stock market in...

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pay increase budgets have fallen to 2.9%, according to the newly released Compensation Data Banking & Finance 2009 survey.

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hair salon owner in Florida is offering free haircuts to unemployed women that have a job interview scheduled and want to look...

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Watson Wyatt research finds half of UK companies with defined benefit pension plans expect to close them to all employees by 2012.

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York-based law firm has launched two company stock fund investigations.

August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey finds exempt employees are typically granted 9.2 vacation days while those who are not exempt get 8.2 days.