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Benefits | March 19th, 2010

California Hooters Workers File Wage and Hour Suit

March 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Five current and former employees of various Hooters in California have filed a lawsuit claiming they were forced to share tips and pay...

Compliance | March 18th, 2010

New Law Offers Tax Incentives for Hiring

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act was enacted into law on Thursday.

Benefits | March 18th, 2010

Prank Offers Lesson about IT Security against Former Workers

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Whether a disgruntled employee or naïve prankster, the actions of a man fired from a Texas dealership offers employers a lesson on systems...

Benefits | March 18th, 2010

Law Office Investigating Schweitzer-Mauduit International Retirement Plan

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announced it is investigating the investment of Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. retirement plan participants' and beneficiaries'...

Deals and People | March 18th, 2010

CalPERS Appoints New Investment Officer for Diversity

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has named Tim Legesse its new Investment Officer for Diversity.

Benefits | March 18th, 2010

LGBT Boomers Cite Additional Retirement Fears

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In addition to the financial concerns of retirement, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Baby Boomers have fears of discrimination and dependency on...

Products | March 18th, 2010

Unum Offers Benefits Education in Spanish

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Unum has released a new series of educational videos to help Spanish-speaking customers learn about its employee benefits products and services.

Benefits | March 18th, 2010

Benefits Enrollment Increasingly Going Paperless

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The past five years have witnessed a 165% growth rate in the proportion of employees that use some combination of Web-based technology to...

Deals and People | March 18th, 2010

The Standard Adds to Retirement Plan Sales Team

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Standard has announced the appointment of four new Pension Consultants to its Retirement Plans Sales Team.

Benefits | March 18th, 2010

PR Exec Salaries Sharply Declined in 2009

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Recent research reveals that corporate communications and public relations executives saw double digit decreases in base salaries in 2009.

Administration | March 18th, 2010

Madoff Computer Programmers Indicted

March 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Jerome O'Hara and George Perez -- former computer programmers for...

Administration | March 17th, 2010

NJ Won't Make Required Pension Contribution

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced the state won't make a required $3.06 billion pension contribution for the fiscal year starting July 1.

Compliance | March 17th, 2010

House Passes up Pension Funding Relief

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension plan funding relief provisions have been left out of a jobs bill approved by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Benefits | March 17th, 2010

House Passes another COBRA Subsidy Extension

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The COBRA premium subsidy would be offered for another month under a new bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Administration | March 17th, 2010

Europe's Largest Pension Fund Sues BofA over Merrill Lynch Deal

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Europe’s largest pension fund, Netherlands-based Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP has filed a lawsuit against Bank of America in relation to its merger with Merrill...

Benefits | March 17th, 2010

Fewer Workers Are Tardy, but Excuses Are No Less Crazy

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new CareerBuilder survey finds fewer workers this year report sometimes being tardy for work.

Benefits | March 17th, 2010

Employers Increasing Use of Penalties to Encourage Healthy Behavior

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. companies continue to use financial incentives as a way to increase employee participation in health and wellness programs, but a new survey...

Compliance | March 17th, 2010

Court Rules AT&T Doesn't Have to Pay Benefit Mistakenly Reported

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has found AT&T is not bound to provide a lump-sum benefit a service provider mistakenly told a retiree he would...

Administration | March 17th, 2010

Target-date CTFs Taking Hold in the DC Market

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to Cerulli’s latest retirement-focused research, collective trust funds (CTFs) are experiencing a renewed interest over the last few years in the defined...

Deals and People | March 17th, 2010

Wirth Tapped to Head CalSTRS PE Portfolio

March 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Margot Wirth has been named to head the $17 billion private equity portfolio of the nation’s second largest public pension plan.

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