Benefits

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Buck Consultants shows companies are incorporating and working towards integrating a number of green practices.

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Harrah's Entertainment last week revealed that the company will suspend matching employees' 401(k) contributions.

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau announced Friday it will cut contributions to employee 401(k) and profit sharing plans for the year to make...

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - Sometimes misprints are funny due to typographical or spelling errors, but some are funny because the words can be taken with a...

February 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) Board of Trustees has decided to postpone investment staff incentive payments until the fund has a...

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Greenwich Associates' new U.S. Defined Contribution Pension Plan Research Study indicates almost 79% of eligible employees participated in their companies' 401(k) plans in...

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union members accounted for 12.4% of employed wage and salary workers in 2008, up from 12.1% a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor...

February 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores, which has frequently been criticized for not providing sufficient health care coverage for workers, announced that the proportion of associates who...

February 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A car dealership in Maui unlawfully discriminated against an employee by failing to hire him for a salesperson position because of a perceived...

February 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. will pay $50,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors has announced retiree medical and life insurance benefits changes in a continued effort to reduce expenses.

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the places where love is increasingly in the air these days is apparently the workplace.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper has temporarily stopped contributing to its employees' retirement 401(k) plan.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responses to a recent survey indicate job candidates might want to check their own references first before listing them for a potential employer...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a recent Randstad survey comparing presidential personalities with boss personalities, no single president's personality type emerged as the frontrunner.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Daily News has suspended its 401(k) match.

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a Webcast sponsored by the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators (NAGDCA), Pam Everhart, SVP, External Policy Development and Client Advocacy,...

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - To save money in these hard economic times (or to solve seemingly impossible tasks), it is helpful to find new uses for...

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Base salary budgets for 2009 have been reduced even more by many companies in response to a worsening economy and reshaping of corporate...

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cincinnati Bell said last week that it would freeze pension benefits for some management employees, as well as management salaries.