Benefits

June 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) has found state employers' planned merit increase budgets are up slightly for 2007.

June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Harris, Rothenberg International, LLC (HRI) has announced it now offers clients a new health and wellness program that targets the behaviors that lead...

June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compensation/pay and benefits tied as the top factor for job satisfaction by employees participating in the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 2007...

June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR Policy Association has announced an agreement with Aetna Inc. to offer a retiree medical plan that will not only cover post-65 retirees...

June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorneys for a customer service technician at San Antonio-based AT&T have filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claiming he...

June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A publication by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis discusses research that shows employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have ridden a wave of...

June 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A female Wal-Mart employee walked away from a Massachusetts state court with a jury award of nearly $2 million after jurors found the...

June 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - New data from Statistics Canada shows that the number of Canadian workers covered by a pension plan remained at 5.7 million as of...

June 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The University of Kentucky has unveiled a domestic partner benefits program under which domestic partners and "sponsored dependents" would qualify for coverage that...

June 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary.com has released the results of its annual survey on compensation for human resource professionals.

June 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With regulatory changes firmly in place, a new study has found many employers are trying to find the best way to provide their...

June 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While most human resource professionals agreed compensation was very important to achieving certain business goals, a new survey found companies are not using...

June 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) confirms the role reversal since 1979 of defined benefit and defined contribution plans as the...

June 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatic enrollment continues to gain popularity in 401(k) plans and may soon be the norm, according to results of a survey by the...

June 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pay-for-performance trend is apparently getting hotter as the number of workers whose companies have adopted such programs rose from 35% in 2006...

June 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retaining employees outranked controlling costs as employers' top benefits objective on a recent survey.

June 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-third of American adults describe themselves as apprehensive, panicked, or clueless about their retirement, according to results of a survey conducted on...

June 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a new report by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) indicates a drop in the number of federal employees telecommuting...

June 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Projections of health care cost trends for 2008, reported by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), indicate a return to single digit increases for employers.

June 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Researchers at the University of Oregon claim that giving money to a good cause stimulates the same pleasure centers in a group of...