Benefits

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older workers are up to five times more likely to submit disability claims than their younger colleagues while the elder employees' absence durations...

May 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The share of health care costs the employers are paying could increase threefold by 2010.

May 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Long-term disability (LTD) insurance is valued by employers who have it, but the majority does not view it as a way to speed...

May 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than four out of 10 companies have had employees called to active military duty and 88% were supportive of their military employees.

May 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nude models at a Philadelphia art school, finding working conditions unbearable, have voted to join a union.

May 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northrop Grumman is instituting a broad menu of changes to the benefit programs it provides for the 9,900 salaried workers at its Newport...

May 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A judge in Merced, California is letting manslaughter charges stand against California dairymen in the deaths of two workers who drowned in a...

May 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compliance for the recently enacted privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is much greater at health...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As outsourcing gained popularity in recent years, large corporations have begun to outsource more of their human resources administration, including payroll and alternative...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care spending per person in the United States increased by 6.3% from 1999 to 2000, a spike that only widened the gap...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some Montana residents currently without health coverage will soon have access to limited insurance restricted to doctors' office visits and generic drugs.

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) do a better job than other widely available supplemental health insurance plans in protecting Medicare recipients from high out-of-pocket...

May 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-two percent of HR managers believe the fear of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the workplace is "low to nonexistent."

May 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The burst of the dot.com bubble has apparently come home to roost with the nation's MBA students.

May 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Efforts to reform the ailing Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) moved significantly closer to reality when the state's House of Representatives OK'd...

May 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Policies for pay and other benefits for those called up for duty in the military services vary widely compared to what is required...

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean told a New York labor union he wants "everybody in" the US health care...

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an era when spiraling health care costs are one of the most vexing problems facing employers, it's no surprise that state governments...

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fox Sports Network's "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" has been slapped with a sexual harassment suit by one of its hairstylists.

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With stock option expensing on its way to becoming mandatory, nearly half of life sciences industry (LSI) companies will shift to a compensation...