Benefits

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worker confidence in the country's economy and political leadership had plummeted to six year lows as almost one in five American workers has...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior executives are split in their evaluation of their human resource (HR) departments - with nearly half dissatisfied or neutral, and the rest...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While few state government employees around the country want for health care coverage, that doesn't mean they have escaped the often punishing double-digit...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the vast majority of companies offering some form of retiree prescription drug benefit, retirees are using these benefits less often than the...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Driven by retirement savings accounts hit hard by the slumping markets and the increasing numbers of older people without health insurance, more older...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a major victory for the French government, lawmakers have given overwhelming approval to a pension-reform bill that would require government workers to...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Dallas has conditionally certified a nationwide class of current and former GEICO call center employees, who claim that they...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Who, what, when, why, where and how are not just questions that need answering in every story, they are also large speed bumps...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Disability insurance coverage sales in the workplace bested that for life insurance policies for the first time last year, according to a consulting...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A St. Louis, Missouri judge has tossed out a previous jury verdict against Enterprise Rent-A-Car, ruling a former executive is not eligible for...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Online recruiter HotJobs has added new tools that are designed to help job seekers and recruiters find each other more easily, including a...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Before the dust has even had a chance to settle surrounding the US House of Representatives markup of HR 1776, a new report...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the final hours before Enron Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection, the company awarded executives and others in the company $72 million in...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - People may be working longer hours, but they are also continuing to socialize with their co-workers.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amid declining revenues, cash compensation for high-tech executives increased in 2002 an average of 6.3%.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) rate increases continue to be above the double-digit mark for 2004 (14%). However, if the preliminary results hold, the...

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is a significant gender gap between male and female MBAs - particularly in their workplace goals, according to a new poll.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many US companies were unprepared to meet Sarbanes-Oxley's initial deadline for imposing fairness and accuracy controls on their financial reporting, a new survey...

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have gone to court to force three companies to withhold federal taxes from employee paychecks.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having a formal strategy in place to govern human resources operations can pay off handsomely for HR executives and their companies, a new...