Benefits

May 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Office bullies may be increasingly common in the workplace, but they apparently aren't terribly honest about (or aware of) their behavior.

May 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are demanding more from their sales force and pushing performance-based compensation further into their sales organizations, a new survey reveals.

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost three-quarters of federal workers are dissatisfied with how their mangers deal with low-performing colleagues and less than half say their agency properly...

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US worker salaries for 2005 will continue on the upswing for the second straight year after three years of compensation declines, a new...

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Look for an explosion of employer interest in offering health savings accounts (HSA) next year, a new survey advised.

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado man who worked for a Budweiser dealer claims he was fired after he was spotted drinking Coors beers in a bar.

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Washington, DC-based research group has estimated that employers will have to come up with another $114 billion for their retiree health-care benefits...

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by an employers' group found that managers believe it is just as important to make workers prudent health care consumers...

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Thousand Oaks, California hospital has agreed to pay $4.75 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of miscalculating overtime and...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kroger supermarket chain was hit with a lawsuit this week from the anti-workplace discrimination agency, alleging that the company would not hire...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're one of those planning on a "Sith Day" to catch - or recover from catching - the new Star Wars movie...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of employers surveyed offer domestic partner benefits to their employees, according to Hewitt Associates.

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though many companies have been reluctant to allow open religious expression in the workplace, corporate giants such as AOL, Intel Corp., American...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An African American executive at General Electric has filed a federal lawsuit against the company alleging that it discriminates against African American managers...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wages for high-technology professionals decreased 0.8% in the first three months of 2005 over a year earlier, according to the latest Yoh Index...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives federal workforce subcommittee has okayed a bill that would permit federal workers to keep paying health insurance premiums...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Of the all the issues on the plates of HR managers these days, one of the more unusual may turn out to be...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR)-More than half (53%) of Americans say they plan to spend anywhere from 16 to 30 years in retirement.

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-For more than half of executives (54%), gaining measurable HR cost savings is the most appealing potential benefit of Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing (HR...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Wal-Mart, Pennsylvania's largest private employer, might not feel so welcome with the introduction of legislation aimed at defraying state health-care costs.