Benefits

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Base salary levels will remain steady while employers will turn to bonuses and other awards to compensate their employees, according to a survey...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that a post-9/11 rule that employees take a test in English to require a security...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer-sponsored retirement plans could prove unusually effective in getting more African Americans into the world of investing, a new survey found.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - South Carolina Retirement Systems has selected The Hartford as one of four providers for the State of South Carolina Optional Retirement Program (State...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois has expanded its I-SaveRx program to allow prescription drug imports from Australia and New Zealand.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employers may offer a variety of employee benefits these days, but helping defray commuters' fuel costs doesn't appear to be one of...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lower court ruling was overturned for two former employees at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California who complained they...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tucked away in Tuesday's announcement of planned massive layoffs at HP was word that the computer maker was also changing its retirement savings...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee of the Montgomery County Collections Department in Texas has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saying she...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that half of US companies say increasing healthcare costs have cut into profits and more than 75%...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting shows that only 64% of British employees are satisfied with their jobs and only 59% feel...

July 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Court documents filed in a pending 2001 sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart show the giant retailer not only didn't implement change recommendations, it...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by Harverford College Economics Professor Linda Bell shows that a pay gap still exists between women executives and their male peers,...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HMO rates are averaging a 12.9% increase for 2006 compared to 13.6% at the same time last year and 17.5% in 2003, according...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Studies on call centers in the financial services sector find that the annual turnover rate is as high as 39% and results in...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees have filed suit against Coca-Cola Co., claiming their employee retirement fund is mismanaged because it's too heavily invested in company stock, Bloomberg...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lower-income workers stand to benefit the most from auto enrollment in 401(k) plan as they hit retirement with a higher account balance, according...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yahoo HotJobs plans to find more job listings for its users by copying the listings off the Web sites of employers, the San...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that the Wells School District in Minneapolis has agreed to pay $98,000 to 12 teachers to...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Salary.com and America Online (AOL) estimates that employers pay $759 billion in salary for wasted hours by employees.