Benefits

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - Recent surveys and studies show US workers may face a more secure retirement than workers from other countries, reports the Wall Street Journal.

June 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued an information letter advising that employees in Texas can still contribute to a health savings account (HSA)...

June 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though cost-shifting the increased expense of workplace health coverage to employees has slowed the growth of such expenses to single digits, a...

June 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While surveys of younger Americans typically find that most feel financially unprepared for retirement, a new poll of those on the cusp of...

June 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite warnings from many observers of the domestic labor market that the flood of retiring baby boomers could spark a difficult labor shortage,...

June 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law Saturday a bill designed to help close the funding gap at the Teacher Retirement System of...

June 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tokyo remains the world's most expensive city with Osaka following closely behind, according to the latest annual Cost of Living Survey from Mercer...

June 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty nine percent of companies in a new survey said the cost of their benefits package stayed about the same in 2005 over...

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aircraft maker Boeing and the Canadian investment firm that purchased its facilities in Wichita and Oklahoma have been accused of age discrimination as...

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kent, Washington maker of beef jerky has agreed to a $362,000 settlement of a religious discrimination lawsuit based on charges it refused...

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The GOP candidate for governor of Oregon has proposed moving new public employees to a K plan style retirement program.

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A scant 214 of the 11,000 Web sites designed to appear as though they were Canadian pharmacy sites actually sold prescription drugs and...

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Business process outsourcer Convergys Corporation and Deloitte Consulting Outsourcing LLC have struck a deal under which Convergys will acquire Deloitte's Finance and Accounting...

June 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A third of small Oklahoma companies offer no workplace health coverage, according to a new survey.

June 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania employers will be shielded from civil lawsuits over their disclosure of an employee's job performance to a prospective employer under a bill...

June 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by a Chicago marketing services firm has found a significant disconnect between a company's marketing staff and those in Human Resources.

June 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace discrimination laws, has settled a suit against Blockbuster Inc. for...

June 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most Canadian employers are not ready to address problems with work-related injuries or personal illness, despite increasing employee absenteeism and the costs associated...

June 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of companies planning mid-to-upper level manager hires during the second half of 2005 is off 8.9% from predictions made for the...

June 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Deloitte Consulting survey found a significant level of discontent among sales firms with their sales compensation program even though nearly all...