Benefits

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to control diabetes-related healthcare costs, five companies will roll out a voluntary diabetes program in 2003.

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The University of Washington stands accused of denying health-care benefits to hundreds of its hospital workers by simply declaring them temporary employees.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 100,000 current and former federal workers could soon start the process of collecting some $173.5 million in back pay from the...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey sponsored by an employment lawyer group predicts continued layoffs along with age discrimination claims and whistleblower retaliation will dominate the workplace...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers could see a fair amount of turnover because of dissatisfied workers who now say they plan to change jobs in 2003,...

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what is being described as the first of its kind in the country, a Boulder, Colorado initiative would ban discrimination on the...

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) says an official decision is still pending, it looks unlikely federal employees will have Christmas Eve...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR compensation officials at national companies have to contend with average market salary levels that can vary by more than 80% from market...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Motorola is teaming with technology firm ACS to form a new business process outsourcing (BPO) venture, while itself becoming a customer of the...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former UBS PaineWebber system administrator is facing chares of sabotaging two-thirds of the company's computer systems to crash its stock price, according...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US health care industry appears to be the hardest hit by problems in attracting and keeping employees, while the tech sector is...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines is allowing its top executives to trade hundreds of thousands of worthless stock options for shares more likely to be money-makers...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Abbe Favocci is taking her chance at weighing in on Weight Watchers' decision to fire her as a meeting leader after she put...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's apparently no respite in sight for employer healthcare costs, according to a new report from Buck Consultants.

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 2,700 Hershey Foods Corp. unionized employees who staged a strike earlier this year in a dispute over insurance benefits are trying to...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-six percent of baby boomers are not saving for retirement, with 70% saying they intend to rely on Social Security, according to a...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The medical care index, a component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose 0.6% in November, according to the US Department of Labor...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worker under the age of 30 are 38% less likely to have calculated the amount of savings necessary for a comfortable retirement than...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers say they are better at appraising employees than providing coaching and ongoing performance feedback, the Mercer Effective Performance Management Practices Survey has...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of US Latinos shows that they have different views than non-Hispanics about being successful in an American workplace as well...