Benefits

October 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sony Electronics is the latest large employer to embrace human resource outsourcing, having tapped Hewitt Associates to provide HR technology and operations services.

October 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A significantly larger number of defined contribution retirement plans are offering investment education to their retirees, a new survey found.

October 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1998 suicide of a 52-year-old Japanese construction manager is now being recognized as stemming from overwork and is now classified as an...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rate of retirement plan participation among full-time private-sector workers 25 to 64 years old fell during 2001, a study found.

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though many venture investors have become increasingly tight-fisted with their money, they're still willing to pay a premium to keep quality managers...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee at a Kansas City-area company got the ax last week after complaining to the company chief executive about the executive's brother's...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state pension fund harms women in the state by discouraging retirees from structuring their benefits to protect their spouse if widowed,...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in profit sharing and 401(k) plans have more investment choices from which to choose than they did in past years, an industry...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies were not at all reluctant to slash costs this year with an eye toward the continuing economic uncertainty, a new survey found.

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs, new research offers some insights into how and why employers make health plan decisions.

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of employer-sponsored health care and prescription drug coverage will continue to rocket to the moon, according to a new survey.

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the lingering weak job market and wild gyrations still rocking Wall Street, employees' confidence level in the present and future conditions of...

October 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another large employer is cutting its pension contributions and asking workers to pick up a larger share of health care costs.

October 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most workers still have a long way to go in achieving their retirement dreams, a study finds.

October 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blue Cross of California has unwrapped Power HealthFund PPO (preferred provider organization) for large employers with 500 or more employees on both an...

October 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Afghan-born former Worcester Art Museum security guard was fired only because he is a Muslim, the Boston Globe reported.

October 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care costs for baby boomers may be rising to the moon, but that doesn't mean the aging process is to blame, a new...

September 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SIMPLE IRAs continue to be popular among very small employers as a retirement savings vehicle, according to a new survey.

September 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The future may not be so bright for a third of the people participating in a recent investing survey.

September 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors Corp. will increase the twice-slashed 401(k) match for nearly 45,000 US salaried employees, company officials said, according to news reports.