Benefits

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small businesses are less likely to offer health insurance benefits than larger ones, and small employers that don't offer health plans are also...

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 58% of affluent Americans surveyed, who are still working, participate in retirement plans such as 401Ks, 403bs and Keoghs, a new study...

April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A whopping 85% of employees believe that their employer should offer pre-negotiated savings on health-care services that are not being covered by their...

April 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the experiences of the giant California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) prove as much of a bellwether as they have in the...

April 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Global Crossing employee has asked a bankruptcy judge to grant him access to a variety of documents about the firm's retirement...

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of workplace injuries dipped slightly last year, according to the Department of Labor - but not at the pace that they...

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though it is getting more expensive to do so, virtually all employers participating in a recent survey say they offer employee health-care...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Fannie Mae Foundation has developed a personal finance curriculum which may help encourage participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to thriving in a marketplace that seems to recreate itself all the time, top executives can rest assured that most...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care continues to be the sector in which Global 500 corporations rely the most on Web sites as a recruiting tool with...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of the job cuts announced in the retail sector in the last year occurred after the September terrorist attacks, according to a...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Teachers' salaries barely kept pace with inflation in the 1990s, increasing by only 31% compared to the wages of full-time workers, which the...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of WorldCom workers has accused the telecommunications company of discriminating against them based on race, age and sex.

April 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department will develop voluntary guidelines for certain industries to cut down on workplace injuries, replacing the Clinton-era regulations rejected by Congress...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the economy rebounds with even half the vigor of past recoveries, the US could return to full employment within 12 months, research...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McDonald's Corporation's recent decision to discontinue its automatic enrollment program raised a few eyebrows. After all, the famed franchise was the first to...

April 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers seeking to attract and retain women need to emphasize results and not the hours spent in the office, a consulting firm says.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite Coca-Cola's $192.5 million race bias settlement, a dissident group of African-American coke workers are pressing ahead to have their claims decided by...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lies on job applications during the last quarter of 2001 jumped by 20% with 30-something men most likely to tell tall employment tales,...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Support staff members don't get much respect.