Benefits

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An estimated 300,000 companies, roughly a quarter of the nation's employers, are looking to introduce or expand their voluntary benefits offerings, according to...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care participants are no strangers to rising medical insurance costs, leading many to seek more cost basis information than in the past.

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Next time someone tells you they are doing "odd jobs," they might not be exaggerating.

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees of National Steel Corp. are now faced with a termination of their health care and life insurance benefits, after the company announced...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has tapped a Seattle law firm as plaintiff lead counsel in a racial bias class-action lawsuit against the Boeing Company.

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to searching for online job postings, newspapers take the cake, with Web sites like CareerBuilder and Monster not far behind.

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Topeka, Kansas public library employee has charged that she was reprimanded after she talked openly at work about gay rights following last...

July 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Models that have claimed overstated commission fees and expenses at some of New York's largest modeling agencies have been granted class action status...

July 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An alphabet soup of generational monikers proves that time marches on, as the new crop of Generation Y workers express lower overall satisfaction...

July 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has surpassed a self-imposed deadline for determining cases within 130 days in determining whether gays and lesbians can...

July 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tyco International has adopted limits on executive severance pay in the wake of an accounting scandal in which former top executives allegedly stole...

July 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees are retiring from the state of Colorado in droves.

July 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market for mid-to-upper level managers and professionals has cooled off after a slight surge earlier in the year.

July 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have proposed exempting from a federal age discrimination law employer decisions to cut or eliminate retiree health benefits when workers become...

July 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the majority of Americans do not doubt affirmative action policies giving women and minorities preferences in the workplace have had their benefits,...

July 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An arbitrator has determined that last year's layoffs at Verizon Communications were inappropriate, adding more pressure on the company to talk with its...

July 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies than ever before are turning to short-term incentives, such as bonuses and other reward programs, to compensate technology workers versus a...

July 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the sluggish economy holding down IT salary increases in general, those with in-demand skills are getting more generous compensation, according to a...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five former Polaroid employees have sued the company, claiming that Polaroid violated ERISA by severing their long-term disability benefits last year.

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US life sciences companies have continued to compensate senior managers for delivering on their promises by linking compensation to theirs and the firm's...