Benefits

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With annual cost hikes slowing on an average per-employee total health cost basis and fewer employers cost-shifting to their workers, organizations will need...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Baby Boomers may not have been the best role models when it comes to retirement savings, and the overwhelming majority recognizes that and...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average starting salaries for legal professionals in the United States are projected to rise 4.7% in 2007, according to a new study by...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A continuing shortage of nurses and growing shortage of physicians has meant emergency department staff salaries are surging while compensation for emergency department...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The highest-paid executives in America have received a 48.2% increase in their average annual cash bonus and were paid 31.2% more total cash...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 80% of executives say that the pace of change is speeding up in organizations all over the world, and seven out...

November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Americans who are caregivers for ailing family or friends frequently have to pay for it by tapping their retirement savings, according to...

November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Mercer Human Resource Consulting survey in the UK has found a growing sense of awareness by executives that they need to...

November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Product design firm Davison Design and Development gives employees choices of working on a pirate ship, in a cave or in a castle,...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of America's youngest workers say they would be "grateful" and "optimistic" if their employer automatically enrolled them in the company's defined contribution...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey conducted for Putnam Investments found 15 million workers age 45 or over are providing financial support for an aging parent or...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A large number of Americans responding to a recent poll said smokers should have to fork over more for their health coverage while...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent study found that two-thirds of benefit managers surveyed agreed that "all employers should share in the cost of health insurance for...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial periodical publisher Source Media Inc. has charged its former vice president of technology with hacking into the company's computer system three years...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are increasingly offering health savings account (HSA) or health reimbursement account (HRA) benefit options to employees in an effort to reduce health...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preferred provider organizations (PPO) costs are expected to rise 11.9% in 2007, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) by 11.8% and consumer-driven health plans by...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Hudson has found that many workers have not taken vacation time and those that have did not totally distance...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey finds that organizations and their employees do not see eye to eye when it comes to gauging the impact of...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Heatlh care costs are expected to increase 11% in the next 12 months - the smallest rise in five years - according to...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The primary focus of new government guidance about avoiding avian flu from infected birds is on good hygiene, including use of gloves and...