Benefits

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 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 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 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 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.

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Boston has cleared Harvard University of discriminating against a library assistant who had charged she wasn't promoted because...

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 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It should come as no surprise to the retirement community that half of the respondents in a 401(k) quiz failed the task, with...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A proposed law that would give small employers a tax credit for providing health insurance to employees in gaining momentum in the North...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Enrollment in Minnesotan state-regulated HMO products is dwindling, a sign of both over regulation and more flexible alternatives, according to the Minnesota Council...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many 403(b) plan sponsors mistakenly think they aren't subject to Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) requirements - an oversight that leaves...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 1.3 million US private-sector workers' injuries and illnesses kept them off the job beyond the day they got hurt or fell ill...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retired NBA players are hoping that Commissioner David Stern and union Executive Director Billy Hunter up their monthly pensions out of good-will.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although many people will have been fooled by April Fool's Day jokes today, the people who might be the deepest shade of crimson...