Benefits

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic efficiencies inherent in a defined benefit retirement plan makes it a less costly benefit for employers to provide than a defined...

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-three percent of employers surveyed by Administaff said they are hiring additional full-time employees in 2008.

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees are more hotly competitive with each other today than a decade ago, a new survey found.

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian employers are implementing only limited measures to provide employees with relief from commuting costs, according to a new survey conducted by Hewitt...

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Top-performing employees and those in industries that have stayed healthy despite the economic downturn should walk away from their salary reviews with generous...

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internet job site CareerBuilder.com has unveiled a new site offering a color-based personality test focused on using color choices as a predictor of...

AUGUST 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifth Third Bancorp has joined the ranks of plan sponsors hit with a participant stock-drop lawsuit with a new case filed this week...

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than four out of 10 households statistically at risk for not having a large enough retirement nest egg - and who will...

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An analysis of Fidelity Investment's 16,723 corporate defined contribution plans representing 11.5 million participants indicates workers are more inclined to save for retirement...

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA) and the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR) announced they have joined forces to create...

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from CareerBuilder.com indicates some workers have caught Olympic fever.

August 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burger King has thrown one Ohio worker out with the bath water, so to speak.

August 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The success of pharmacy benefit cost management strategies cited by respondents to a survey from Buck Consultants will depend largely in part on...

August 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The path of the 401(k) from being mostly employee-driven to recent efforts to relieve employees of the burden of decisionmaking may well-serve consumer-driven...

August 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care costs are expected to increase on average 10.6% in the next 12 months, according to Aon Consulting Worldwide.

August 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new tentative three-year union contract with Verizon will continue providing health care for both active and retired workers and increase wages and...

August 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New government data shows that two-thirds of private industry and government workers had access to retirement benefits in March 2008.

August 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest version of an annual study finds that workers trying to keep their standard of living when they retire will need to...

August 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fourteen years of data on resume falsifications kept by background screening firm Accu-Screen indicates spikes in the number of lies found on resumes...

August 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Motivated by fear of a dwindling workforce and concerns about employee retirement readiness, 401(k) plan sponsors are "diligently seeking better ways to leverage...