Benefits

June 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The British government's chief independent pension advisory body has jumped into the fray over a compulsory retirement age with statements that it should...

June 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IBM has settled 50 lawsuits filed by former California factory workers claiming the giant computer maker was liable for their health problems because...

June 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even as excessive sweetheart golden parachute awards to departing executives have snagged their share of headlines recently, a surprising number of firms don't...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Approximately half (54%) of employees are confident that they have the resilience needed to maintain their job performance during times of change, according to recent...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A large insurer, which offers health reimbursement arrangements (HRA) among other options, is out with a new study that it claims further supports...

June 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American corporate landscape presents a vastly different picture than just a few years ago, according to a new study.

June 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Both employees and employers think that a lack of open, honest communication has the most negative impact on employee morale (cited by 30%...

June 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A post September 11th workers' compensation claim has been denied after a New York appeals court ruled that Joseph Betro lingered at the...

June 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 82 million Americans went without health insurance at some point of time during 2002-2003.

June 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Treasury Department investigators are probing the role of IBM employees and lobbyists in illegally changing an internal department memo prepared as part...

June 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Heightened terrorism awareness in this country has made relocating employees into the United States a human resource nightmare.

June 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Across the globe, participant views of what their retirement years will be like have grown darker and darker.

June 17, 2004 (PLANSPSONOR.com) - The "Land of the Free" offers no paid free time for workers to tend to family issues, but when measured against those nations...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the nation's most potent lobbying groups has thrown its support behind a measure that would permit the reimportation of cheaper drugs...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest pension fund is set to vote on a proposed HMO rate hike of 11.4% for 2005.

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies these days are making use of business process outsourcing (BPO) - to a large extent concentrated in their IT and payroll...

June 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has put another total outsourcing pact into overdrive, inking a deal with TRW Automotive.

June 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing movement of employees are resisting employers' efforts to use consumer-driven health care strategies to cut the rate of health-care cost increases.

June 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-seven percent of hiring managers are preparing to ramp up hiring at their location from the second to third quarter.

June 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Governor Bill Owens has inked a measure hiking state and local government contributions to its public retirement plans and expanded defined contribution...