Benefits

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire has agreed to advance an Army National Guardsman within its pay schedule and give him back pay as part...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Costs for the compensation and benefits of state and local government workers was a whopping 46% higher than their private-sector counterparts in 2004,...

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...

April 7,2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a reputation for being tanned and healthy, Californians are costing their employers $21.7 billion a year in medical bills and lost productivity due...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health-care coverage bill proposal currently before the Maryland General Assembly could cause retailing giant Wal-Mart to rethink its growth plans for the...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of IT jobs outsourced to countries such as India and China is expected to skyrocket from the current 5% to an...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are using performance plans to measure their employees, but aren't turning a critical eye on the plans themselves, a Hewitt Associates report...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that non-compete agreements from insurance giant Marsh & McLennan Companies was unenforceable under...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers in a new survey have a suggestion for plan sponsors searching for the Holy Grail of convincing participants to save for retirement:...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One in five employers reports having been audited by the Department of Labor (DoL) for violating federal wage-and-hour laws, a new survey found.

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Deloitte survey indicates that there was a dramatic rise in the use of investment advisors by plan sponsors, as well as...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the lead of other states, Alaska is grappling with its defined benefit pension system, with multiple reform proposals sitting in a stalled...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Without changes to national health care policy, the number of nonelderly Americans who are uninsured will climb to 56 million by 2013, a...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A half of young workers and a third of GenXers have yet to start planning for or actively saving for their retirement years.