Benefits

October 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An article published in the Journal of Health Affairs, details a mixed picture on the effects of Consumer-Directed Health Care plans (CDHC) on...

October 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans responding to a new study said health care cost increases are cutting into their personal savings and affecting their household finances.

October 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) claims Americans age 25 - 34 face rough financial times due to...

October 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Full-time working women brought in salaries that were 81% of what their male counterparts made in 2005, continuing a gradually narrowing gender wage...

October 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A fruitless effort to find talented workers has forced some employers to up the ante in terms of wages to fill positions, according...

October 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey has found that 92% of employers offer flexible benefit plans to their employees.

October 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from the American Business Collaboration (ABC) has found that factors important to worker job satisfaction differ depending on age, gender,...

October 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey commissioned by the Swingline Workspace Tools Group has found that 66% of workers say job stress causes actual physical problems.

October 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly seven-in-ten (68%) respondents to a national survey of financial and human resources executives reported that efficiency is the main reason for outsourcing...

October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An arbitration panel last month upheld claims by former MassMutual Financial Group chief executive Robert O'Connell that he was unjustly fired last year.

October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit plans have a language all-their-own, densely populated with obscure acronyms, and complicated theorems. Take that and couple it with the buzzwords that...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Better still, if he did work for you, how much would you pay Homer Simpson?

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A newly released report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured claims that almost half of the decline in employer-sponsored health...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US private-sector workplaces were a bit safer in 2005 over the year before, according to new government data.

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting found retailers lead other employer types in implementing aggressive employee benefit cost controls.

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Prudential Financial Inc. indicates that employers view their benefit programs as important and are looking at innovative ways to...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it has approved regulations that would authorize the system to develop a pre-funding plan...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey has found that, despite evidence that paid time off (PTO) programs reduce unscheduled employee absenteeism, the number of organizations utilizing...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Online job demand slowed in September, with job availability showing increases in less than half of the top 28 US job markets, according...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Median total compensation for outside (non-employee) directors of US boards, as well as CEO pay, is higher than last year according to The...