Benefits

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers in a poll of Northeast companies overwhelmingly listed the rising cost of providing employee health-care coverage as the most pressing benefits issue...

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employers have raised the bar on qualifying for non-executive variable pay plans in the last year or plan to do so in...

November 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When California voters go to the polls Tuesday, choosing a President won't be the only choice on their minds.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state residents can now order cheaper Canadian prescription drugs over the Internet as part of a three-state online partnership.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the whole, IT professionals shouldn't look for much more in their paychecks next year, according to a new study

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accounting and finance professionals will find fatter paychecks on the whole in 2005, but not much fatter than this year, according to a...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Circuit City Stores Inc. is freezing its defined benefits pension plan, instead opting to increase funding for the company's 401(k) defined contribution plan.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older Canadian workers are more likely to report workplace stress issues than their younger counterparts, bucking conventional wisdom and showing trends that may...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although the cost of employee benefits and compensation expenses continued to rise, the rate of increase eased off slightly during the third quarter.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a wary eye cast toward health-care cost increases continuing their double-digit journey skyward, an alarming number of Americans are ready to cut...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors continue to be concerned about running out of money in retirement so they are trying to save more than in years past,...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits and health care are important in both choosing a President and choosing a job, a new survey by MetLife asserts.

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seventy-five percent of working Americans would prefer$6,200 in employer-provided health insurance rather than an equivalent amount in pay, according to an Employee Benefits...

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Top corporate accounting executives saw the largest hike in median total cash compensation among the 25 most common finance, accounting, and legal jobs...

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of human resource and benefits managers overwhelmingly support President Bush's proposals for health coverage over those proposed by challenger John Kerry.

October 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Louisiana jury has awarded a former DuPont Employee over $1.2 million in a discrimination suit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

October 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Fidelity Investments study illustrates the significant ways personalized communications can help plan sponsors beef up participants' involvement in their retirement plan.

October 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A vast majority of US and European multinational companies utilize outsourcing or shared services to support financial functions, but less than half consider...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees won't truly be regarded as a corporate asset alongside other assets until their value can be precisely measured with the same confidence,...

October 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As should be expected with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) about to implement stock option expensing rules, long-term compensation incentives are down...