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Minimum Wage Hike Could Drive Price Increases
March 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-seven percent of human resources professionals are opposed to the proposed minimum wage increase to $7.25, while 31% sanctioned the federally-mandated pay hike,...
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Workers Say Paid Sick Leave Should be Required
March 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty percent of adults say some or all employers should be required to offer paid sick leave to their employees, but 52% admit...
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Most CEOs On the Fence about Automatic Enrollment
March 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 5% of firms intend to use the automatic enrollment feature sanctioned by the PPA to get employees to contribute to a 401(k)...
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EEOC Slaps Walgreens with Racial Discrimination Suit
March 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The government on Wednesday sued Walgreen Company, alleging that giant drugstore chain systematically discriminated against African American workers in job placement and in...
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IBM to Help Workers "Get Smart" About Personal Finance
March 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IBM will today announce a multi-million dollar personal finance and education benefit program for all its U.S. employees - "IBM MoneySmart."
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Disability Planning not Top Priority for Workers
March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 60% of workers don't know how they would financially manage a disability that robs them of an income and almost half of...
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Employers, Workers Believe Benefit Packages Not up to Snuff
March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of U.S. employers and employees found that neither believes current employer benefit programs are living up to their potential.
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Survey: Women's Attitudes Blocking their Ascent to Leadership Positions
March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women's perceived attitudes may be holding them back from gaining leadership positions, according to a recent survey that suggests the commonly held stereotypes...
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Drug Test Results Show Continued Positive Results Drop
March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A continued decline in positive drug test results for the amphetamine class of drugs among safety-sensitive workers, coupled with a decrease in positive...
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Executive Compensation Packages Sweetened, Talent Pool Shrinks
March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The compensation packages for executives are swelling as the talent pool from which companies pull their prized administrators is shrinking, a recent survey...
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Wanna Bet? Office Pools on the Rise
March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With March Madness just around the corner, a new survey claims that office pool betting is gaining in popularity.
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Familiarity Breeds – Miscommunication?
March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, newly published research at the University...
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Expat Assignments Expand, Extend
March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The use of international assignments is not only growing, its role is changing, according to ORC Worldwide's 2006 Worldwide Survey of International Assignment...
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Higher Earners also Among 401(k) Non-Participants
March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Watson Wyatt analysis has found that younger, lower-paid workers are not the only ones dragging their feet about getting into their...
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Government Drops Q406 Productivity Estimate
March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) on Tuesday said the productivity of American workers during the fourth quarter of 2006 was actually a...
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EEOC Modernizes Approach to Combat Racism
March 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is giving its mission to combat racism in the workplace a facelift, which includes strengthening old...
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New Research Backs Competence Tests for Pilot Retirement
March 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stanford University researchers who studied the performance of older pilots have called for a mandatory retirement based on their competence and not the...
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Wealthy Americans Leaving Workplace Retirement Plan Assets Behind
March 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research by a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based firm found that a third of affluent Americans have a significant portion of their investable assets in...
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Some Friday File Fun
March 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They say a picture is worth a thousand words.