Benefits

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-eight percent of companies with 1,000 or more employees hire staff to read or analyze outbound e-mail while 44% of companies with more...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey that measured the usage of Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and similar health care plans showed that only one in five...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) gave global consulting firm Accenture a $40 million, four-year contract last week to help the personnel...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the federal government's Human Resources office say the recent awarding of a $40 million consulting contract is an important step towards...

June 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The decision by AK Steel to require about 4,600 retirees to bear some of price of their health care coverage is an attempt...

June 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a recent poll of more than 1,400 CFOs from US companies with more than 20 employees, an independent research firm found that...

June 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is a link between employee incentives and productivity gains among warehouse workers, according to a recent survey.

June 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of leading health care insurers shows that health care costs are forecasted to increase by 12.2% for HMOs in the next...

May 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The spring Employee Benefits Market Survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers found that all sizes of employers continued to experience...

May 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma insurance company owner has sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for the manner in which it investigated sexual harassment charges...

May 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retired workers from two steel companies eventually found new health coverage after their companies went bankrupt but many went without coverage for sometime,...

May 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the number of enrollees and dependents covered by consumer-driven health plans - either a health reimbursement...

May 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Statistics Canada says the trend of early retirement, which peaked in the 1990s, is ending.

May 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2005 National Employer-Sponsored Health Plans Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting found that employers plan to focus on consumerism rather that cost-shifting...

May 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that the National Education Association (NEA) and its Alaska affiliate (NEA-Alaska) have agreed to pay...

May 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, tactics such as bribing an interviewer for a position or turning in an application stained with orange juice are not the...

May 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While new online job ads were down in all nine regions in April compared with March, according to data from The Conference Board,...

May 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One company has created an alumni network that will link job recruiters with more than 400,000 university graduates.

May 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is a link between a company's ability to keep down its health care costs and the Internet tools it has available to...

May 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a new fact sheet addressing reasonable accommodations for attorneys with disabilities.