Benefits

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A shift in focus for call centers from service only to a sales generation tool are forcing employers to increasingly confront issues such...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While participant 401(k) balances and are participant rates continued to decline last year, encouraging news could be found for plan sponsors looking toward...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the rate of health-care cost hikes is expected to slow somewhat in 2004, prescription drugs remain as the key cost villain in...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The holiday spirit is apparently making employers more generous with their year-end leave policies, but that doesn't necessarily mean weeks of holiday partying...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As another year of double-digit health-care cost increases loom, plan sponsors are employing a variety of approaches to deal with the challenge.

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit costs continue to rise, but they are a smaller proportion of the total package now than a decade ago, according to new...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are stepping up efforts to attract and retain key talent for a good reason: business strategies for success are increasingly becoming people...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sure, maybe George Pavlovsky walked into his office drunk and looking for his bosses while toting a loaded sawed-off shotgun - but is...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the many changes arising from the Medicare reform bill are developments that will mean a financial boost for certain employer-sponsored retiree health...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of managers looking for employees via a newspaper ad remained steady in October.

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to cut costs from the state's budget, North Dakota is considering turning to its northerly neighbor to buy prescription drugs...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seven percent of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) plan to add to their accounting and finance headcount in the first quarter of 2004.

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants state health care programs to remove from their preferred prescription drug lists any companies that limit their supplies...

November 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most employers are planning merit budgets below 4% in 2004, representing some of the smallest increases for workers since 1985.

November 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sexual harassment award against Pacific Maritime Association has been reversed by a federal appeals court.

November 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PJAX Inc. has reached a settlement in a discrimination suit involving five female employees.

November 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While many still picture entrepreneurs as the young bucks of industry, increasingly, these days, those starting their own companies have a few gray...

November 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Commitments to both children and elderly relatives keeps piling on the after work responsibilities for the "sandwich generation."

November 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A computer programmer who popped after receiving one too many penis enlargement ads has been arrested for allegedly making repeated threats to the...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charges of gender discrimination have netted the 2,500 female employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory a $17.9-million settlement and a 1% raise.