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September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has proposed an exemption that, if granted, would allow General Motors Co. (GM)...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Davidson Investment Advisors has announced that Steven R. Pines has joined the firm as Vice President and Director of Institutional Business Development.

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Davidson Investment Advisors has announced that Steven R. Pines has joined the firm as Vice President and Director of Institutional Business Development.

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the nation's private sector pension insurer has made strides in recent years handling the processing of large and complex pension plans, a...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new survey, employers say they will not absorb any additional costs that result from reform and plan to take actions...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The credit crisis and subsequent global recession caused many companies to slash workforce headcount and drastically reduce their expenditure on people, and a...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group representing retirement services industry providers has recommended the creation of a mandatory standardized 401(k) plan.

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a pending 2012 deadline mandating that U.K. employers enroll workers in a pension program, U.K. pension regulators have released a new booklet...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent TIAA-CREF survey of 1,002 higher education employees, aged 50 to 70, who are actively saving for retirement, finds that six in...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Assistance Society of North America (EASNA) has released a review of the nature and value of employee assistance programs (EAP).

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International employers continue sending workers for overseas assignments, but in a less expensive way, according to a new study.

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A CareerBuilder survey finds more than one-in-five (21%) workers say they have reduced their 401(k) contributions or personal savings in the last six...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by insurance provider MetLife finds having life insurance and the amount of proceeds from that benefit are key factors in the...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by a Nashville recruiting firm found that 40% of employers are planning to rehire some former workers they laid off as...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chestnut Global Partners (CGP) and Burke Consulting are now marketing a workplace outcome survey tool for employee assistance programs (EAP).

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's Index Services has launched what it says is "the first ever public index series designed to measure the average cost...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Schiff Hardin LLP has announced that former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Bradford P. Campbell joined the firm's Washington D.C. office...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lincoln Financial Distributors, the intermediary distribution company of Lincoln Financial Group, has announced John C. Kennedy has joined the firm as head of...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deputy commissioner of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission has ruled that the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits Facebook Inc. from complying...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Montana) on Wednesday presented a health care reform plan that would require Americans to purchase coverage, would...