Benefits

March 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While multi-employer pension plans have not been hit with the crushing body blow many of their single-employer counterparts have suffered in recent years,...

March 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Spending on prepaid health care cards is expected to go up this year - way up to $855 million, according to a newsletter...

March 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A consortium of employers is developing a health-care scorecard to assist employees in making more informed decisions about the quality and cost of...

March 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A vegetable producer that routinely bused its migrant laborers to various fields for the day's work must reimburse those laborers for the time...

March 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian companies may put their benefits administration in the outsourcing basket to slash costs, but that doesn't mean they've been carefully tracking those...

March 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson has approved 28 private companies to provide Medicare drug discount cards, beginning June 1.

March 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost 30% of job switchers in the last 12 months ended up with a smaller paycheck, according to a new survey.

March 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A scant 12.7% of job seekers for top corporate positions were willing to relocate to a new city, according to a new survey.

March 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors concerned about the potential brain drain that comes with the mass retirement of Baby Boomers should know one out of three...

March 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lack of a nonqualified retirement plan for executives is holding smaller companies down in the race to recruit, retain and reward key...

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is launching an investigation into cancer rates among employees of the microchip industry.

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford Motor Co.'s chief executive, Bill Ford Jr., is literally putting his money where his mouth is.

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Pittsburgh continued $500 monthly checks to a former refuse worker for more than three decades after his July 1970 death.

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Southern California Edison were getting rave reviews from their "customers" in a recent satisfaction survey.

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eight former employers of Whole Foods Market may love to see customers at the store - but not quite that much of one...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pace of health-care cost increases is expected to be 12% this year, down marginally from 13% last year.

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts bill aimed at making cheaper prescriptions drugs from Canada available to state residents has cleared its first legislative hurdle.

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An arm of the United Methodist Church has a solution to high priced prescription drugs for its members - free pharmacy discount cards.

March 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Half of work-age adults in the nation say the government should mandate health-care coverage for all workers.

March 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plan premiums will be going up in 2004, just not nearly has high as the 13% average expected.