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March 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a lower court ruling that found Union Pacific Railroad previously violated federal civil rights law by...

March 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They say that a picture is worth a thousand words....Well, here's a couple of thousand words worth...enjoy!

March 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that the provisions of a benefit plan summary plan description (SPD) are legally controlling if the SPD...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighteen percent of small businesses say their older workers plan to keep working after retirement and 56% say they see the advantage of...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half (55%) of employees say that recognition for their work affects their performance, but a recent poll by Maritz, Inc., suggests...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance identifying dozens of frivolous positions that taxpayers should avoid when filing their tax returns.

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewlett-Packard Co. investors axed a proposal that would have given large shareholders such as pension funds the clout to nominate their own candidates...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegiant Asset Management Company has launched a small cap 130/30 strategy utilizing quantitative small cap equity management.

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who offer consumer directed health plans (CDHP) as well as other potential cost-saving programs are finding the most success in keeping their...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the dictates of a recent appellate court finding about the legality of cash balance plans, a federal judge in Illinois has thrown...

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's workplace safety agency has warned about 14,000 employers that their work site injury and illness rates are higher than average.

March 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sara Lee, Eli Lilly, Tribune Company, and Marsh & McLennan were among the 11 companies that made the California Public Employees' Retirement System...

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it has signed onto a $117.7 million settlement of a securities lawsuit brought against...

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky legislature ended its session Tuesday without pushing through a piece of pension legislation that some lawmakers say is needed now to...

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fiduciary Risk Assessment LLC (FRA), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based software development company, has unveiled its new 404c Compliance Diagnostic tool.

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time in the five years that MetLife has been studying workplace benefits, employers in the firm's latest poll say keeping...

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued an update of its booklet, "Divorce Orders & PBGC."

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With recent research showing that just over half of Irish workers don't have retirement plan access in the workplace, the Irish government is...

March 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer HR Services has announced it will use the technology of Wealth Management Systems, Inc. (WMSI) to enable former retirement plan participants to...

March 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by a Washington, D.C.-based research group finds that organizations with robust information technology (IT) spending benefit from significant productivity increases.