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October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Computer giant IBM announced Friday that it will pay 100% of the cost of its U.S. employees' primary health care expenses starting in...

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has turned away a request by lawyers from State Street Bank & Trust to postpone preliminarily approving...

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to what it described as "heightened media attention to isolated but high profile cases of so-called "pay-to-play" in the public sector," a...

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The accelerated pension funding mandates in the Pension Protection Act are costing the U.S. economy much-needed jobs, a new report contends.

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded ratio of the Teachers' Retirement System of Illinois slipped to 52% as of June 30, 2009 from 56% a year earlier,...

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thomas Harty has joined Plan Sponsor Advisors in a new Senior Consultant position, according to Jennifer Flodin and Donald Stone, co-founders of the...

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half (49%) of financial services firm CFOs surveyed said their companies are reducing employee bonuses in the next six months, according to...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Halloween just days away, a new survey of HR professionals about their performance appraisal experiences finds widespread fear of workplace "vampires" and...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to CareerBuilder's Halloween survey, 18% of workers reported their workplaces are scary, and 7% said their boss or supervisor is the scariest...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its recent survey of nearly 1,200 American Payroll Association (APA) members, CyberShift found 76% of respondents estimated that up to 10% of...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - City officials in Florida's capital city have extended the city's employee benefit package to employees' domestic partners.

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gilbert Van Hassel has been named as global chief executive of ING Investment Management, after it was announced the division is to be...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Obama has signed legislation that expands coverage for "exigency leave" and "servicemember caregiver leave" under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers with 100 or fewer employees could buy health insurance coverage from a new Health Insurance Exchange in 2013, as part of proposed...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In testimony Thursday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), witnesses urged legislators to loosen up funding rules...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CME is now offering businesses that might have some trouble digging out this winter a different way to hedge against those challenges.

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the recent SEC Release No. 34-60126 allowing the use of vested stock options as collateral against the sale of covered...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders of the AIM Independence Funds have approved changing the funds' sub-classification from diversified to non-diversified and approved the elimination of what was...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Watson Wyatt survey of large employers found that 35% of those that reduced their 401(k) match anticipate reversing that decision in...

October 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Tuesday proposed reforms to pension plans at federally-regulated companies.