Benefits

Increasing complexity of defined benefit plan administration brought on by new regulations is leading sponsors to take a new look at outsourcing solutions.

A funding crisis accelerated the demise of many defined benefit plans in recent years, and some have predicted new funding rules brought on by the Pension Protection Act...

Is cash balance a workable design alternative to traditional pension plans?

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unveiled new pension accounting rules in October 2006 with further rules to come in Phase II of the project at a later...

A belief that public sector workers are firmly ensconced atop the three-legged stool of retirement financing and their benefits are being increasingly funded by private sector taxpayers largely...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a first-ever in-depth profile of baby boomers who will turn 62 in 2008, the MetLife Mature Market Institute has found they are...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors know all too well the trials and travails of the workplace - little wonder that "War Stories" is one of our...

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 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 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 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 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...