Benefits

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resources outsourcing is continuing to grow, with 94% of respondents to a recent poll claiming that they outsourced at least one HR...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ninety-six percent of employers who choose to offer consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) to employees do so at least in part in order to...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pharmacy inflation in workers' compensation was at only 6% in 2004, down from 13% in 2003.

April 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After five years of a sub-par post-college job market, college graduates will finally see a favorable hiring environment when they leave the confines...

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill introduced in the Colorado Legislature would allow the state to publish a list of employers that provide little or no health...

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 2005 will be a strong year for headcount growth and overall full-time hiring, according to a Piper Jaffray & Co. report.

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has filed a complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and is asking the National Labor Relations Board...

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Montana state Senate committee has killed a pair of pension reform proposals that would have jacked up contributions from public employers across...

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Key information like costs, quality of care and communications tools like personalized benefits statements can make a real difference in how much workers...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), almost 40% of Social Security beneficiaries are affected by benefit taxation.

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-five percent of executives polled in a new survey indicate that their top priority over the next two years will be to identify...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost 50% of human resource professionals say that monetary rewards programs are "very effective" at motivating top-performing employees, according to a survey from...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many recent efforts to change CEO compensation programs have been focused on linking pay to performance and these efforts seem to be paying...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of New Jersey employers offering health coverage to full timers dropped last year for the first time in more than a...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS has been ordered to pay a former worker almost $30 million for damages related to sexual discrimination and illegal retaliation.

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has introduced the SIMPLE Cafeteria Plan Act of 2005 to amend the tax code so that small businesses...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers working on payrolls covering Sunday April 3 when daylight savings time started at 2 a.m. should remember that employees on the job...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Democratic Representative in the US House has introduced a bill that would make it easier for employers to automatically enroll new employees...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a reversal of earlier policy, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has backed off his plan to privatize California's public employee pension system.

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 2% of respondents to a basic investment knowledge test had perfect scores, indicating that American's understanding of investment and financial concepts is...