Benefits

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Offering a workplace retirement plan is a good thing - particularly for small companies, a retirement plan provider survey found.

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conversion from tradition defined benefit plans to cash balance schemes does not add up to a reduction in costs for employers.

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though fear of being sued has scared many plan sponsors away from offering participant investment advice, they may actually be better off...

May 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies with double-digit growth have employee engagement levels 20% higher then their lower-growth peers.

May 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have a new information source about their retirement plans - an electronic newsletter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

May 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though forced CEO departures declined in 2003, involuntary turnover remains at near-record levels, a new survey found

May 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing has hammered out a financial settlement in a class-action gender discrimination suit brought by 28,000 current and former female workers.

May 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half (57%) of U.S. private-sector workers had access to a retirement plan in 2003, according to government data.

May 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies can save as much as $7 million in health-care costs simply by getting their tubby couch potatoesque workers to exercise a few...

May 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The biggest mistake while on vacation is not forgetting the sunscreen or staying at the Bates Motel, it is not taking enough time...

May 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 2002 employer spending for total compensation was $6 trillion, according to recent data.

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More pension schemes in the United Kingdom (UK) are shuttering their doors to new entrants.

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time, a prominent national clothing retailer has publicly rated the way its overseas factories treat their employees.

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic decline of an airline industry supplier and the subsequent job loss for one of its employees was not a direct result...

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts labor union the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 has amended its benefits plan to clarify dependent spouse to mean "a...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The idea of retirement being a carefree journey into the sunset is beginning to shift as more future retirees see employment in their...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express Retirement Services said it has successfully completed the transition of its 401(k) retirement plan client base to the BlueStar service platform...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies are poised to hire staff in their human resource (HR) departments, a sign that more job opportunities may be coming available...

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two new employer coalitions have formed to combine their collective health-care buying clout to affect change in the ever-escalating health-care costs.

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Uninsured Americans will incur $41 billion in uncompensated health-care treatment in 2004.