Benefits

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A strengthening domestic economy and more sightings of the bulls on Wall Street have bumped up average 401(k) plan balances by 35%, but...

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of defined contribution plan participants portrays American workers as radically more pessimistic about their retirement chances or whether they will...

If parents had worked as hard to get their teenagers to do homework over the past decade as the 401(k) industry had worked to turn Americans into savvy...

May 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One sizable plan sponsor is headed in the opposite direction from many employers these days when it comes to offering workplace pensions -...

May 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates has signed an agreement with TXU Corp to provide human resource business process services outsourcing (BPO) for the energy firm.

May 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man with a shy bladder claims Caterpillar Inc. violated the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) when he was fired for failing to...

May 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To better cope with what the company described as a weak technology market, Microsoft Corp. has slashed prescription drug benefits and workers discounts...

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) - 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 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 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) - 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...