Benefits

December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. recently released a list of 2005 Most Unbelievable Workplace Events.

December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Company employees have lost their legal bid to hold the aerospace giant responsible for racial discrimination.

December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's new wellness program includes a mandate for employees to stop smoking or be fired.

December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Visteon Corp is reinstating its company match contributions for its retirement plan, although at a less generous rate than before, the Detroit News...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - From an examination of Form 5500 annual reports, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) found that 9.4% of pension plans were frozen as...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite some grumbling about customer service problems with a federal consumer-directed health plan (CDHP), a new study said the federal employees were generally...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even with the growing number of Internet job search sites, a majority of employees still rely on newspapers to locate new positions, a...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City says that every day of the transit workers' strike will cost its businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in lost...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers only have to shell out as much as 3% extra to attract key 50+-year-old employees, but are likely to get an...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research released from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that most increases in contribution limits do little to increase...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - These days, as people race to pick up last-minute holiday gifts and otherwise get ready for upcoming festivities, oftentimes those chores spill over...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Ryan's Family Steakhouse Inc. for creating a racially hostile work environment when a manager displayed...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The third report in a series on income replacement rates for current retirees from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College shows...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early Tuesday morning, New York City's local transit union decided to strike after reaching a deadlock, primarily over pension benefits for new employees,...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the apocalyptic predictions of the effects of massive numbers of retiring baby boomers in the systems designed to care for them, a...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Midwest area companies say they plan to give employees an average salary increase of 3.3% based primarily on merit, and most anticipate normal...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even corporate executives do dumb and embarrassing things at work.

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a California supermarket company on charges it participated in a widespread scheme to secretly rehire...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California company has agreed to a $255,000 settlement of a lawsuit against its hamburger company alleging that a shift manager at one...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Conference Board survey found that 77% of companies surveyed want the development of their global employee talent to go more quickly.