Benefits

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 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) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has released details of a tentative pact with Ford Motor Co. which calls for health care coverage...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that real average hourly earnings is up to $16.35 for November 2005, an...

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.

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many of the companies anticipating 2006 layoffs will be trimming their workforce without providing severance pay.

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-seven percent of workers think their job prospects will be better in 2006 than in 2005, according to a Hudson survey.

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey has found that, while short-term international assignments for employees are increasing, one-fourth of employers do not have a benefits policy...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies may be hiring again in some areas of the economy, but that doesn't mean job seekers can call - or at least...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hewitt Associates study has found that, while many companies are beginning to realize the strategic benefit of outsourcing, some HR departments are...