Benefits

December 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A flight attendant has filed suit against American Airlines, charging that the carrier's health plan discriminates against women.

December 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workplace stress is a major problem for 9% of employees, and affects two-thirds of workers at least occasionally, according to the Second Annual...

December 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Admitting he lied about earning three college athletic letters as a collegiate football player, George O'Leary has stepped down as Notre Dame football...

December 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most US and Canadian companies offer laid-off employees severance pay based on their length of service, a Towers Perrin study found.

December 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost 60% of American workers want their employers to regulate holiday parties, but 65% of employers don't think they should be held liable...

December 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merit salary increases will be particularly skimpy as 2001 draws to a close and companies scramble to cut HR costs, a Towers Perrin...

December 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors may need to work harder than ever to get employees to save as much as possible in their employer retirement plan,...

December 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers stand to lose millions of dollars in productivity this winter as workers stay home to battle colds and flu, yet more than...

December 12, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of respondents to a survey believe that their work environment is safe, despite the events of September 11 and the Anthrax scares that...

December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Brushing up on a professional skill or going back to school for a higher academic degree are still the keys to getting an...

December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee health-care costs have skyrocketed 11.2% in 2001 and employers can look forward to more of the same in coming years, a Mercer...

December 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the number of the unemployed continuing to rise as companies cut back to weather the first recession in over a decade, a...

December 6, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The record-low unemployment figures and competition for workers, which led to sharp salary increased for information technology (IT) professionals during the tech boom, are...

December 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a drop in the number of layoff announcements by US companies in November, the impact of the terrorist attacks on the labor market...

December 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move expected to save $25 million per year, Visteon Corp is slashing its 60% match to employee retirement accounts for its...

December 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey conducted by Catalyst found that an increasing number of the 500 largest U.S. companies have appointed women as board directors over...

December 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the face of an economic slowdown, 69% of companies are not offering holiday bonuses this year compared to 64% last year, a...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 61,000 employees at Eastman Kodak, who hold stock options with exercise prices so far above the current market price as to make...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prior to the 2001 economic slowdown, the number of employers offering health insurance grew, pushing the numbers of the uninsured down to 15.9%,...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Notwithstanding the bleak economic outlook, 51% of US workers polled still expect to receive year-end holiday rewards from their employers, according to a...