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March 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women retiring out of professional careers may have a harder time adjusting to the sunset years than do women who hold jobs normally...

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sun Microsystems is being accused of hiring Indian workers at the expense of their older, domestic counterparts.

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A public employee's union has sued four pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) for allegedly inflating the price of prescription drugs.

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A majority of IT managers (71%) say employee burnout is currently a serious issue in their organizations.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 71 million working Americans under 65 had health insurance they got through their primary workplace in the first half of 2000.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Finance and benefits executives consider human resources (HR) and benefits administration outsourcing to be a good investment for their organizations.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Idol's search for tomorrow's next star is keeping almost one in four workers from being productive.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors hoping for a health-care cost respite in 2004 might keep an eye on Sacramento this week.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley has backed away from a possible settlement in a sexual discrimination lawsuit.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Low-wage workers are less likely to work for companies that offer coverage or even to be eligible to participate.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers interested in getting employee health care from a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) now have an addition online data source to help...

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal and external communication of corporate strategic goals is being measured infrequently among organizations, if they do it at all.

March 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unsettled markets sent roughly a third of participants heading to more stable investments in the fourth quarter, but older workers were significantly more...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumers are twice as likely to use the Internet to research a new car purchase or major family vacation than prepare for a...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies are making changes to their executive compensation policies and practices in light of current economic, regulatory and governance trends.

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one in three Americans, or 74.7 million people under the age of 65, were without health insurance at some point in 2001...

March 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Men in the US are job hopping more often than they used to and are now less likely to hang onto a position...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10% of employees who file occupational or non-occupational disability claims drive 55% of employee medical costs and up to 66% of all...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of health care benefits escalated even more than US employers had forecast in their budgets last year, leaving some employers to...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, the confidence level of US workers plummeted in February to an all-time low - dragged down by worries about the nation's...