Benefits

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State governments around the country continue grappling with often-severe employee pension and benefit woes, including recent actions in states such as West Virginia,...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increases in amphetamine use among employees appeared to be slowing in 2004 compared to the double-digit hikes seen the previous three years, according...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and retired United Airlines flight attendants has come up with a unique means of highlighting the plight of their...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled that a lesbian couple can pursue a loss of consortium claim against one partner's employer...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Georgia teachers and other state employees who smoke will have to dig deeper into their pockets starting July 1 to pay for their...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Whether a defined benefit or defined contribution program, workers like their employer's retirement plan to the point where having the plan may make...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers may not exactly be in love with their employers, but the results of a new survey show many employees are significantly more...

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)-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 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 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...