Benefits

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An American Airlines flight attendant has filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming her employee health plan is discriminatory...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees could forfeit some of the prescription drug coverage they get from retirement or state plans if Medicare added a drug benefit, according...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average length of a hospital stay in the US declined from more than 7 days in 1980 to 5 days in 1999,...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In honor of Administrative Professionals Day, formerly Secretary's Day, careers web site Monster.com asked respondents what they thought of the job title "secretary".

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Interrelated data on wage levels and benefit plan details will now be available from a single source, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS)...

April 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The same factors that encourage small business owners to become entrepreneurs also tend to discourage participation in retirement plans - and might tend...

April 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey conducted by the Consumer Federation of America and the American Council of Life Insurers has found that 40% of workers have...

April 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers are finding a greater array of worklife benefit options, thanks to the still-tight labor market, according to a survey of 1,020 US...

April 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of technology workers over the age of 45 say age discrimination is a significant problem in their field, according to a recent...

April 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than three-quarters of American employers are now keeping tabs on their employees, twice the number just four years ago, according to a...

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by Gartner, a research firm, found that employees spend an average of 49 minutes per day going through their e-mails.

April 20, 2001 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fully-insured premiums increased in 2000 for both long-term and short-term disability insurance, while sales in Administrative Services Only contracts declined for both...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson has launched a national campaign to encourage organ, tissue, marrow and blood donations, working through...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatically enrolling employees in 401(k) plans appears to increase both long- and short-term participation patterns, according to a new study from the Profit-Sharing/401(k)...

April 19, 2001 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Working parents appear to be granted more leniency regarding their working conditions compared to those without children, according to a new survey...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's latest National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans shows that health benefit costs for active employees increased by 8.1% in 2000, outpacing the...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shifts in work and personal life balance and changes in society are reflected in the results of the Society for Human Resource Management's...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors across the country could get a peek ahead at next year's healthcare costs, through the eyes of the nation's largest public...

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Industries with large minority work forces are trailing those dominated by whites in the percentage of workers enrolling in employer-paid health insurance.

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half of the 525 employees, polled in a recent survey by staffing firm, OfficeTeam, cite their boss as the "go to" person...