Benefits

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Phoenix-based health care company plans to freeze the defined benefit pension plan for about 2,000 employees as part of a cost-saving measure,...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A low 11% of workers under age 35 say they are participating in their company's 401(k) plan, according to a recent poll for...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp. is freezing the defined benefit plans of two of its subsidiaries and eliminating its 6%...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While an MBA may provide a budding executive with a strong general education, international executives in a recent study said they did not...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 30% of baby boomers have saved less than $25,000 for their retirement and nearly the same amount (31%) say they will not...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly three-quarters of executives say that women and men with similar positions are not paid the same and there are six times as...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About 38 million Americans hold back medical information from their health providers over worries about how the personal data might be disclosed, according...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Virginia will start automatically enrolling its state employees into defined contribution plans for all workers hired after January 1, 2008.

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lesbian teacher in the U.K. was awarded £20,000 in compensation in a suit that claimed she was denied paternity leave when her...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders are apparently moving closer to getting their money's worth in the executive suite, a new Mercer Human Resource Consulting survey indicated.

April 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The proportion of U.S. private-sector workers enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans with no premium required by the employee dropped from 27% in 1998...

April 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individuals should start saving no later than at age 35, or will be in danger of facing a significant drop in lifestyle when...

April 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unplanned worker absences are not good for anyone concerned - employees or employers.

April 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workplace parties are a frequent litigation concern - but an after-work gathering in Chicago has given rise to a new cause of action...

April 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Raising concerns about identity theft, the personal information of more than 6,000 employees at DCH Health System were lost in March by Mercer...

April 6. 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Kentucky Lottery Corp. worker has sued her former employer, several of its top executives, and Fidelity Investments - claiming her retirement...

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A major group disability insurance provider says its data supports the notion that medical treatment advances are helping more people return to work.

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A well-known ERISA litigator has launched an investigation into a cash balance conversion.

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest company chief executives saw their annual bonuses jump 13% and the value of their equity-based compensation holdings increase by almost...

April 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Low defined contribution plan participation combined with a declining defined benefit pension system, rising health costs and insufficient personal savings means a larger...