Benefits

July 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amid a shaky market and economic slowdown, Americans have more faith in their retirement planning than they did during the highs of 1999,...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Less than half (43%) of middle-market companies currently offer stock options to their employees, just outnumbering the 39% that have no plans to...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Usage of the Internet at work increased 23% in the past year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford has decided to change its controversial performance evaluation system that has set off a series of age and reverse discrimination bias suits.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers may have another reason to encourage employees to stay fit, trim and healthy that $128 billion annual tab for workplace injuries.

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Over a quarter of US workers lack confidence in their employers ability to guard against workplace violence, a survey reveals.

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Group health insurance is not an option for many US workers who are without coverage due to tight eligibility policies, a new study...

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash severance payments to terminated employees have plunged by 20% in the last four years, a recent survey finds.

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over a third of US employees with a workplace online connection are having their Internet and e-mail usage monitored continuously, according to a...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who use automatic enrollment to get employees going with their retirement savings may not be helping them as much as they...

July 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total annual income for engineers, a profession that seems to have escaped the downsizing tsunami, rose 4.6%, according to a new survey.

July 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The AARP says it will lend a helping hand to an age discrimination class action suit against Ford Motor Co.

July 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Seventeen current and former employees of the Coca-Cola Company have turned their noses up at a $192.5 million settlement in a class action discrimination...

July 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers looking to clamp down on unauthorized technology use by workers won't draw much solace from the results of a new survey of...

July 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Job cuts announced by US companies climbed by 56% in June, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

July 3, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average total compensation paid by private industry employers to their employees continues to increase, while benefit costs represented a growing share of compensation...

July 3, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Retailer Best Buy has agreed to pay $5.4 million to resolve an overtime pay dispute involving about 70,000 current and former employees.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Despite rapidly approaching retirement, only 7% of baby boomers have purchased long-term care insurance.

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly all (96%) of employers say that paid-time off (PTO) is an effective way to attract and retain talent, but many firms do...

June 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Large-company directors tend to get paid more in cash than their mid-and-small company counterparts, are more likely to get employee benefits, and are more...