Benefits

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the announcement of major job cuts at Ford, General Motors on Tuesday announced its own round of belt-tightening moves including a new...

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Online recruiting site Careerbuilder.com has agreed to pay $524,216 as part of an out-of-court settlement of allegations the company improperly classified certain employees...

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Retail Industry Leaders Association has filed a lawsuit challenging the new Fair Share Health Care Act recently passed in Maryland and a...

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Your workplace may be as safe as a baby's crib, but you are far from home free when it comes to injuries affecting...

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Outsourcing advisory firms EquaTerra and TPI, Inc. have signed an agreement to merge, with a closing date later in the month.

February 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from Robert Half International shows that employers expect a little pushiness from job applicants.

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Issues in Brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College shows that Form 5500 Data from the Department of...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey from Ipsos Descarie / Laurentian Bank of Canada found that 82% of Quebecers aged 20 to 29 wish to save...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just as a continuing stream of US firms are freezing their defined benefit pension in favor of a defined contribution program, a similar...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's first offering of high deductible health plans (HDHP) with a health savings account (HSA) may not have equally attracted federal...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jury has awarded a former Proctor & Gamble employee more than $2.6 million in damages in a wrongful termination suit.

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nissan North America has frozen its defined benefit pension plan to new hires as of January 1 and is offering instead a 401(k)...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three years after the introduction of the consumer driven health plan (CDHP) model, the health plans are still mostly offered by large employers.

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report released by The Commonwealth Fund found that, in 2002, 15% of US families (18 million households) had high out-of-pocket health-care...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three quarters of HR executives who reported in a recent poll that their personnel management programs were in place indicated that those initiatives...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington, DC-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released a new online ranking of the employers most supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The White House is providing more details on plans to expand health savings accounts (HSAs) President Bush alluded to in his Tuesday State...

January 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many US-based multinational corporations are falling down on the job when it comes to effectively communicating with all of their business units around...

January 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Aon Consulting survey reveals similar values between Baby Boomers and Generation Xers when it comes to choosing voluntary benefits.

January 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees not only ask for wellness benefits but take advantage of employer offerings according to latest results from the Principal Financial Well-Being Index.