Benefits

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Utah Department of Health has announced a new program to give employed residents of the state assistance in paying for their employer-sponsored...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study has found that companies are increasingly moving sophisticated critical functions to China, India and other offshore locations mostly because that...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement with Cigna on a claim that the company's customer service call center in...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina arbitrator has started hearings into whether about 70 Philip Morris USA workers fired for lying on hardship withdrawal documents from...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total compensation costs for civilian, private industry, and state and local government employers were little changed in the quarter ending September 2006 from...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five hospitals in South Florida have announced they will give preferential status to vendors who provide health insurance to their employees.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Staffing company Manpower Inc. announced that it has beefed up its social responsibility program to encompass a broader range of initiatives.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when demand for talent is high and the pool of available talent is shrinking, accounting firms are not delivering on...

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly nine in 10 employees in a recent survey reported being most productive when surrounded by workplace friends.

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers' expectations for life in retirement have lowered as they see saving for retirement as more difficult in the face of competing obligations...

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ask workers why they would leave their job or agree to take a new one and the answer may be less complex than...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three United Airlines pilots have sued their union over charges it gave certain furloughed pilots none of a $545 million fund set up...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from CareerBuilder.com revealed that more than a quarter (26%) of hiring managers surveyed have used Internet search engines to research...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nine out of the top 10 commercial health plans in the US, as ranked by US News & World Report and the National...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new survey, many Americans remain clueless about their employer's plans to cope with a serious pandemic flu outbreak.

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A human resources clerk at a Virginia plant who was fired for not removing from his personal vehicle a sign to persuade people...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey conducted for CCH found unscheduled absenteeism at US companies reached the highest level since 1999 in 2006.

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Richmond, British Columbia fire department has barred its men and women frontline firefighters from wearing their own underwear, requiring instead more gender...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees of the University of Cincinnati have granted domestic partners of university faculty and non-union workers access to benefits including life and long-term...

October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of US adults (57%) said they invest in long-term financial service investment products, including 35% who participated in a 401(k),...