Benefits

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The top five workplace disability claims, estimated to cost employers more than $500 billion, include lower back problems, depression, coronary heart disease, arthritis,...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Web-based job search board Monster is launching its newest product aimed at getting job seekers in front of a host of new contacts.

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Executive compensation consultants The Todd Organization and Longnecker & Associates have announced the completion of a merger deal.

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies who run their own payroll and HRIS systems may not be doing themselves any favors, a new provider-sponsored study indicates.

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though many still think of union workers as blue-collar assembly line types, that is less and less true these days.

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who think they have seen it all, probably haven't, based on a series of employment related excerpts from various resumes.

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former professional baseball players has filed a lawsuit against America's pastime alleging that racism, battery, negligence and conspiracy contributed to...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "The time for talk is over,'' Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said in announcing a plan to help Minnesotans import US-manufactured drugs from Canadian...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Want a nice beefy raise? Try elevator shoes.

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Social security recipients can expect a 2% cost-of-living raise starting in January.

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - That off-hours job might not be a pain in the neck, but could be one in the stomach, heart, lungs and marriage.

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With health-care cost inflation running at 14.3% annually, nearly half of the respondents in a recent poll said they're changing their health plan...

October 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is calling on the state's citizens to persuade the US Food and Drug Administration to reverse course on its...

October 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Don't look for a dramatic increase in small-business hiring anytime this year, a new poll found.

October 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of the 20 largest defined contribution plan sponsors intend to provide their participants with a managed account option by the end...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Formal stock ownership policies for executives are on the rise as companies look to these policies as good corporate governance moves.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stress levels in the American workplace continue to climb with increasing numbers of workers fretting over losing their job.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though lower than rates seen in 2003, the forecast for 2004's health-care rates shows the fifth year in a row of double-digit...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A manager whose direct reports, peers or supervisors are largely female and whose peers and supervisors are younger typically gets a smaller paycheck,...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an indication of how critical many workers consider it is to have adequate health-care coverage, more than half of respondents in a...