Benefits

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatic enrollment in 401(k) retirement accounts increases worker participation, with the practice being adopted by 8% of plans as of 2003.

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preempting possible Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) regulations on stock-options expensing, many of the nation's top companies are already changing the design of...

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Life in the C-suite is a good bit different because of the raft of recent governance practice changes, a new study found.

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, a majority of American workers see a connection between a clean workplace and the number of times workers call in sick...

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another example of the red-hot political feelings surrounding same-sex benefits, a same-sex couple married in Canada have qualified for pension benefits...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent poll finds that Americans are working longer than their counterparts in the UK and Canada - but they are more satisfied...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care costs are still increasing at a rapid pace, but projections for 2005 show signs of a slowdown in what has seemed to...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of employees participating in employment-based retirement plans grew in 2003, but is still significantly below the all-time high set in 2000.

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal anti-discrimination officials have hit the city of Saginaw with a lawsuit over charges that the city improperly calculated a police officer's pension...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maybe Canadians just like it because it allows them more time for hockey, but the job perk most appreciated by employees in Canada...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government involvement in providing health care to the uninsured ranks atop a list of critical workplace issues, according to human resource practitioners.

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a year of pursuing misbehaving mutual funds firms, New York's Attorney General may have switched his sights to an even more sinister...

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average claims for workers making use of continuing workplace health coverage outstripped those filed by active employees by about 46%, a new study...

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, human resource practitioners believe they will have to cut certain benefits, employees, and salaries to accommodate rising health care costs.

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Executives and managers searching for jobs may have to wait longer for reemployment nowadays, but the ultimate result pays dividends for their patience.

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the 2005 Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey, employers can expect an 8% increase in 2005 health-care costs - the first...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois and Wisconsin officials have formally launched a joint prescription drug importation program under which residents can buy lower-cost drugs from Europe and...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination agency has slapped an Arlington, Virginia hotel with a lawsuit, charging that it failed to rehire a dishwasher who didn't...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants who take the time to set out formal retirement planning goals are more likely to be confident about their financial futures.

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As it does bi-annually, the Principal Financial Group recently took stock of Americans' mood about their finances and the resulting picture isn't a...