Benefits

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 56% of employers said in a survey that their workers would rather have a more hefty salary than an excellent retirement package...

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest White House proposal for the 2008 federal budget would cut in half the government's health care contribution for new federal retirees...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hartford, Connecticut-based insurance company is changing its retirement savings program to include a re-engineered defined benefit pension and a beefed-up 401(k) plan.

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sears Canada Inc. announced Monday that it is freezing its defined benefit plan in 2008 for current workers in favor of a defined...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of employees say employer-sponsored wellness programs encourage them to work harder and 55% say the programs persuade them to stay...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time since 2002, the total number of discrimination charge filings against private-sector employers received by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A salesman who chipped a tooth on a cookie while visiting a customer is entitled to compensation for his dental work after a...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report puts some data behind a basic retirement savings adage: the earlier you start, the more you...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Hewitt Associates study of large US company retirement plans found more evidence of how far the auto enrollment trend has swept...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state-based Empire Health Services announced that it will freeze its defined benefit plan on April 1 and shift to its 403(b) program.

January 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government data shows that annual compensation costs for civilian workers jumped 3.3% for the year ended December 2006, up from 3.1% for the...

January 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Confidence among accounting and finance professionals jumped in January, as the group's Hudson Employment Index spiked 14.5 points to 120.5, according to a...

January 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials plan to formally propose allowing commercial pilots to stay in the cockpit for five more years - a change expected to...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies will begin seeing a shift in the skill sets of their management workers as baby boomers begin falling out of the workforce...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers and workers are not of like minds when it comes to evaluating what works - and doesn't - in the benefits enrollment...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers and workers are not of like minds when it comes to evaluating what works - and doesn't - in the benefits enrollment...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Minneapolis-based Health Savings Account (HSA) provider asserted that there are ways for employers to generate more worker interest in the account by,...

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study suggests that lighter-skinned workers make more money, regardless of race.

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The looming retirements of Baby Boomers could launch a new generation of entrepreneurship, motivated by diminished job security, disappearing pensions, and retirement savings...

January 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of large defined contribution plan sponsors said in a recent survey that they would have to choose a different default investment...