Benefits

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As has been the case in other states, the state of Montana has gotten a tepid reaction at best from public employees to...

May 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite rumors to the contrary, Multnomah County Oregon is NOT planning to go where no man has ever gone before.

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) approved a new health insurance plan aimed at cutting costs, improving treatment and adding patient choice.

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The union representing pilots at Delta Air Lines is balking at a wage-reduction proposal that is part of an overall cost-cutting campaign.

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the balances of company-sponsored retirement savings plans continue to decline, it should come as little wonder that pension security has replaced work...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees hired by a Batesville, Indiana company after July 1 will find access to the firm's defined benefit pension plan blocked, but will...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The worldwide market for recruiting and staffing services in 2002 was down 6.3% to $58.9 billion in the face of a weak economic...

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) - 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 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 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."