Benefits

August 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, sidestepping federal regulator's objections, has followed through on previous assertions that he would allow the importation of prescription drugs...

August 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Bar Association's (ABA) director of the Commission on Women in the Profession has thrown allegations of racial discrimination at the legal...

August 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Businesses looking to be Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliant are split between keeping those functions in-house and outsourcing the labor.

August 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Parcel Service (UPS) has been charged with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for allegedly terminating hundreds of employees because the...

August 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than seven out of 10 Americans with private health insurance have a favorable opinion of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with heavy burdens due to rising health-care costs, plan sponsors are considering a number of cost containment and management strategies: utilization management,...

August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average health-care premium increase in 2004 is 10.5%, the fifth year of double-digit hikes.

August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued a restaurant chain, alleging sexual harassment and racial discrimination against 10 workers.

August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marin County, California's pension board has voted to limit executive travel to one out-of-state trip a year; five trips overall.

August 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All Wal-Mart store employees will have to undergo pre-employment criminal background checks as part of a plan set to start in Midwestern Wal-Mart...

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nine out of 10 US executives currently offshoring worker are considering bringing those positions back home.

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most women would move if the right job came along, but few would be completely willing.

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vermont is suing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the federal agency rejected the state's drug importation plan.

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most (60%) recent and soon-to-be college graduates not working full time expect to have a full-time position within the next six months.

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - From the "Women are from Mars; Men are from Venus" school of thought comes word that male and female executives consider different things...

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National and state governments are rapidly joining the private sector in outsourcing key human resources and other functions.

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most American workers are resentful of domestic businesses that offshore jobs.

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in W.R. Grace & Co's 401(k) have filed a class-action suit, alleging the company breached its fiduciary duty when it failed to...

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the trend smacks of a return to the go-go 1990s, signs that the number of former executives starting their own business has...

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small and mid-sized employers cut benefits in their health plans in 2003, holding the cost increase to 9.8% among employers with fewer than...