Benefits

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overall participation in tax-favored retirement plans remained stable at 50% between 2000 and 2003, a participation rate slightly less than in 1997, according...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Your job may be running you ragged - but it could also be making you fat.

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sunday, of course, is April 1 - April Fool's Day - and the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes has chronicled what it terms...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers are apparently getting more comfortable with the Internet as a way to select and update their workplace benefits, suggests Workscape, Inc., which...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has decided to drop its traditional pension plan for roughly 32,000 of its employees and to instead offer a richer 401(k)...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-one percent of U.S. employers are having trouble finding talented workers to fill positions, down from the 44% who said they had trouble...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fewer Americans age 50 and older received pension/annuity income from a public-sector plan than from a private-sector plan in 2005, but the public...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are cautiously exploring new retiree medical strategies in light of the Medicare Modernization Act, a new survey has found.

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $27.54 per hour worked in December 2006, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but a moving picture?

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Conference Board report asserted that more companies will be able to use phased retirement to retain valuable skills and knowledge in...

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The path to corporate success is changing to include an increased emphasis on "soft management tools" such as corporate culture, environmental protection and...

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of 2006 employment background checks performed by ADP Screening and Selection Services jumped by nearly 20% to 5.8 million, according to...

May 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Energy Department requested help Tuesday in figuring out how to balance its pension and health care debt with the costs of...

March 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior level executives and those working in communications, utility and transportation companies get the most satisfaction from their company's innovation in products and...

March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Teenagers expect or want financial independence, but their knowledge of financial matters falls short of what they need to know to be successful...

March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average 65-year-old couple needs an estimated $215,000 to cover health care costs in retirement, which is $15,000 greater than the amount Fidelity...

March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kenneth Fox wanted to be able to work through his lunch breaks as a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee.

March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan participants under 35 are less confident they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement than their older counterparts and...

March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A government survey of federal employees found that they generally believe they are well managed, have jobs they like and are highly motivated...