Benefits

September 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Utah agency providing insurance to state workers and those of Salt Lake City has decided to ask a state judge...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NorthStar Financial Services Group LLC has introduced an Employee Gas Assistance Program.

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by The Commonwealth Fund (CWF) found that employees would rather have a choice of health care provider than a choice of...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A male employee of the New York Department of Labor has filed suit against his employers, claiming there is a lack of promotion...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer health care costs will continue to rise in 2006, but not as much as in previous years.

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer-based health care coverage for dependent children has eroded significantly over the past five years, new research shows.

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To cut costs, Sears Holdings Corp. has announced that its retirees under age 65 will soon have to pay their own health care...

September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Data from the US Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2003 shows more employees were offered, participated in, and...

September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's state Controller and Franchise Tax Board (FTB) Chair Steve Westly announced that business owners will receive tax credit for donations of the...

September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit on behalf of five kitchen workers at a...

September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Benefit Advisors' (UBA) first UBA/Ingenix Employer Opinion Survey on Healthcare found only 22% of employers believe the responsibility for controlling healthcare costs...

September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that employers' cost for employee compensation averaged $25.86 per hour worked in...

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a grocer health coverage mandate that received overwhelming support from the City Council in August.

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesmart, Inc. has launched the "Retirement Plan Participant's Bill of Rights", a guide for Defined Contribution retirement plan participants.

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Manulife Financial's Canadian Pension Operations has been given the administration and recordkeeping business for the Deferred Profit Sharing Plan and Group Registered Retirement...

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Industries which stand to get hurt the most from the brain drain caused by the pending retirement of large numbers of workers include...

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 2.2 million people die in work-related accidents and diseases each year.

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from Management Recruiters International, Inc. (MRI) found that, on average, a middle manager in the US remains in middle management 6.3...

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resources consultants may be doing an acceptable job, but they can't hold a candle to a hiring manager's permanent staff members, a...

September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The first of about 40 cases nationwide against Wal-Mart, alleging workplace violations, has gone to trial.