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August 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has apparently caught the supplier of Springfield, Massachusetts' Canadian drug shipments red handed in the improper...

August 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Poor employment outlook or not, the majority of American workers are ready to leave their jobs for new opportunities as a new class...

August 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Business Machines Corp. may well soon be taking on a big new chunk of HR outsourcing business if it can hammer out...

August 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average job search is now taking twice as long as it did just two years ago, a trend that is projected to...

August 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) has filed federal charges against an ex-worker for allegedly leading an eight-person conspiracy to steal $226,873...

August 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paid time off plans have begun to take precedence over the segregated paid vacation idea.

August 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reports of the labor force's demise have apparently been greatly exaggerated.

August 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Keeping in line with projections in the United States, Canadian companies are projecting salary increases of 3.25% in 2004.

August 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Since 2001, the sale of sham health insurance policies has left approximately 100,000 people sans medical coverage and at the same time stuck...

August 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As more than seven out of 10 (71%) American workers are clocking more than 40 hours per week, it is little wonder that...

August 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that Allstate Insurance Company violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) as part of...

August 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of chief information officers (CIO) (85%) see no change in their hiring activity in the fourth quarter of 2003, as...

August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Providing onsite daycare for employees who put in long hours could cut absenteeism by an average 20% and turnover by an average 23%,...

August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Once the US job market gets its sea legs back - likely within the next 12 months - lots of workers will probably...

August 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly twice as many US companies have barred discrimination based on sexual orientation and adopted other gay-and lesbian-friendly policies than last year, according...

August 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paychecks apparently will be getting fatter as nearly all of the HR executives polled for a recent survey said their companies are upping...

August 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conservative allies of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi were cautious Monday about Berlusconi's proposal to reform Italy's pension system by raising the retirement age...

August 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sooner or later, most hiring managers are bound to pop "the" question - "Why should I hire you?" But sometimes the answers aren't...

August 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A letter to a dozen US senators said Verizon Communications Inc. promised not to lay off workers before October 2004 or relocate jobs...

August 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The good news about Wall Street hiring for the remainder of the year is that - for a few more firms than earlier...