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December 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling that a crack dealer "exchanged labor for pay on a sustained basis," the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed termination of his permanent and...

December 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the federal Thrift Savings Plan's Employee Thrift Advisory Council are divided as to whether a new plan to restrict the number...

December 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FedEx Corp. reported last week that the Internal Revenue Service thinks some 13,000 owner-operators at the package delivery firm have been misclassified as...

December 24, 2007 (PLANPSPONSOR.com) - A British study found that employer tactics to extract more effort and higher performance from workers not only stresses them, but can have...

December 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median value of total retirement benefits of Fortune 500 CEOs in 2006 was only about half that of their outstanding options awards,...

December 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data indicates that the Saver's Credit was claimed on about 5.3 million tax returns - 4% of all tax...

December 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford Motor Co., two related companies, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union have agreed on a settlement of a race discrimination lawsuit...

December 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the majority of U.S. teens surveyed said they are prepared to make ethical decisions when they enter the workforce, other findings of...

December (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center has issued a Discussion Paper that argues a universal pension system could increase income replacement rates for U.S. retirees.

December 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Inferring that management is a bunch of "drunken lemurs" was enough to get a casino worker fired - but apparently not enough to...

December 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recruiting firm has identified several "hot" jobs in the accounting and finance fields.

December 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation approved by Congress this week contains a provision that would help ensure group plans, rather than Medicare, would pay health care bills...

December 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet and Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. have accused two janitorial contractors of failing to pay approximately 300...

December 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When Danbury, Connecticut police officers arrived at the Danbury Fair Mall last weekend, they received startling news: a woman shopper had groped Santa...

December 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some Arizona businesses and Hispanic civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit to temporarily block the state's new law imposing sanctions against employers...

December 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Getting sloshed at the company holiday party is the biggest workplace social faux pas while nearly seven in 10 executives confessed to having...

December 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest ERISA litigation firm to probe the company stock investment in the Morgan Stanley 401(k) Plan and the Morgan Stanley Employee Stock...

December 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of large corporate pension plans are financially healthy, according to a newly released survey conducted by the Committee on Investment of...

December 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York law firm has filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley and its 401(k) plan fiduciaries charging that participants were improperly allowed...

December 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report by The Pew Charitable Trusts' Center on the States indicates states have saved enough to cover about 85% of their long-term...