Benefits

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The continuing drop in the number of employers offering defined benefit pension plans may not be entirely driven by their desire to cut...

May 11 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers instituting Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) should make sweeping changes to all health plan designs, require an active benefits enrollment, communicate plan adjustments...

May 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-workplace discrimination agency has worked out an $80,000 settlement in a discrimination disability suit involving a Trane Tennessee plant and a...

May 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Facing regulatory and shareholder pressure to link executive pay with performance, companies are reworking the eligibility criteria, design, and size of executive long-term...

May 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Traditional retirement views - particularly those in which retirees don't work at all - appear to have gone by the wayside among people...

May 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Obese workers are paid less than normal-weight employees, but not because of an appearance bias as some past studies have shown.

May 10, 2005(PLANSPONSOR.com)-Nearly half (45%) of organizations do not have a formal process in place in which those retiring employees pass on their workforce knowledge and experience onto...

May 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Systems Application & Technologies, a former contractor for NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, has settled a same-sex harassment lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury in Denver awarded more than $8 million in a case brought by a 36-year-old blind man after finding EchoStar Communications...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deaf worker at the Albertsons Distribution Center in Fort Worth, Texas has filed a lawsuit claiming he was the victim of harassment...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Are you unhappy at your job? You're not alone.

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Your paycheck continues to be linked to your address.

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The probability that a worker can get employment-based health coverage increases, sometimes significantly, if that worker is a union member, according to a new study...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The California Labor Federation is asking the state Supreme Court to toss a formula that critics say sharply cuts permanent disability awards by 50%...

May 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Spokane City Council has approved extending benefits to unmarried partners of city employees - if their labor unions want to negotiate for...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overall 2005 median total compensation for US money managers has jumped 17% since 2003 with a modest 3% base salary hike along with...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska state House of Representatives turned their thumbs down to a key measure overhauling the state's pension plans as part of a...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal employees participating in a recent survey appeared extremely satisfied with their pensions, retirement savings program, and health coverage - saying that all...

May 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - America's farmers are particularly at risk for hitting their retirement years without enough money and being forced into a declining standard of living,...

May 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurance industry trade group announced that the number of Americans getting health coverage through high deductible plans offered along with health savings...