Benefits

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Airways, hard hit by an employee sickout over the Christmas weekend, has warned employees it would discipline workers who abused the sick...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sick of hearing post-modern office jargon? So are senior executives at some of the nation's largest companies, apparently.

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is a strong correlation between men who refuse to take sick days and coronary problems, according to a new study by Finnish...

December 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While some supervisors might assume workers always want to do less work, a new study suggested that might not always be the case.

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian pensioners will receive a slight boost in their Canada Pension Plan (CPP) benefits, with a 1.7% increase set for 2005.

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While nearly half of employees in a survey said they were concerned about outliving their retirement savings (49%), almost a third haven't yet...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty-one percent of US households are saving enough for retirement, according to a paper by economists working with the National Bureau of Economic...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Football League players are asking their union to get them lifetime health care benefits in their next contract.

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch has won a key UK sex discrimination case brought against it by a former executive, who had accused the investment bank...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A government task force studying prescription drug importation has concluded that a system of bringing in lower-cost drugs from Canada and other places...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health premiums for Californian workers rose 11.4% in 2004, less than last year's 15.8% but still slightly above the national average.

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 3.2 million people are expected to be enrolled in some form of account-based consumer-directed health (CDH) plan on January 1, according...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Mets, their Chief Operating Officer, the owner's son, and the Mets' General Council have all been named in a lawsuit...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 3M Company has intentionally discriminated against employees over age 45 in performance appraisals, training, promotions and pay because it perceives them as not...

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because you're dialed in for a conference call doesn't mean you have to give it your undivided attention, at least according to...

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Supervisors may not always like it, but more than half of workers in a recent poll said they had a good reason to...

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by an MBA Web site finds that MBA salary offers and signing bonuses were significantly richer this fall than in...

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though seven in 10 Americans polled say their boss could well be wearing a red suit and sporting a bushy white beard...

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Year-end holiday plans have changed this year for many companies, and not just because of a calendar that puts both Christmas and New...

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan performance is the most important measure of success for pension plans, while meeting employee expectations languishes far below the top of the...