Benefits

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...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sun Microsystems has toughened up its existing employee review process and for the first time will offer severance packages to employees who cannot...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While more employees were covered by long-term care coverage last year, fewer new employers embraced the benefit in the face of rising premiums.

April 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The growth of salaries and bonuses for corporate chiefs slowed in 2000, but still rose at more than twice the pace of average...

April 13, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internet access for blue-collar headed households jumped 52% over the past year, growing faster than homes led by any other job type.

April 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While employers continue to hand out pink slips, unemployed managers and executives were finding new jobs a month sooner than they were a...

April 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stress in the workplace could be wiping out the health benefits reaped from physically active work, a study finds.

April 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new survey, the nation's multiemployer plans are in good shape financially, and are taking advantage of this to increase employee...

April 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Engineering and computer science majors got the best-paid jobs, according to the Census Bureau - or at least they did in 1996.

April 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With April 16 less than a week away, consulting firm Hewitt Associates has put together a list of tips to help employees avoid...

April 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when competition for employees is fierce, and comprehensive benefits are used to lure the most talented, the number of companies...

April 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will have their hands full this year, coping with disintegrating 401(k) balances, resurgent health care costs and regulatory decisions, according to...

April 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - In testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, the centerpiece provisions of the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension...

April 6, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.COM)- Personal contacts and networking were rated the most effective tactic in job-hunting or recruiting by both human resource professionals and job seekers, according to a...

April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man who got drunk while on a business trip and suffered severe frostbite after passing out in the cold is entitled to...

April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric employees have begun making trades on an online brokerage service, courtesy of their employer.

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a partnership with online-education company UNext, General Motors is offering employees a chance to get online MBAs.

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that eating is a "major life activity", allowing a job applicant's suit under the Americans with Disabilities...

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American firms were handing out pink slips in March at the fastest pace since 1993, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.