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November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chairman and CEO of Met-Pro Corporation, manufacturer of industrial pumps and provider of pollution control devices, has announced the company is freezing...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has agreed to pay its former retirement programs manager to settle a claim it wrongfully fired him...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women ages 21 to 64 have a slight edge when it comes to saving for retirement in an employer plan, according to a...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance and consulting firm Aon has announced proposed changes to its US and UK defined benefit pension plans.

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research by a Washington, DC-based group showed that just over half of health maintenance organizations (HMO) used pay-for-performance in their contracts with...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Looking at its biggest quarterly loss in 14 years, Ford Motor Company has announced a series of pay and benefits cutbacks affecting both...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Belo Corp, publisher of the Dallas Morning News and owner of a host of other media properties, announced Thursday that it intends to...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US workforce productivity did not budge in the last quarter, but labor costs continued to climb by 3.8%, the Labor Department announced Thursday.

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stimulating effects of caffeine can have a downside for workers trying to stay alert, including hospitalization in some extreme cases, according to...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new third-quarter analysis found more smiles in the equity markets as equities headed north with an easing of inflationary pressures as oil...

November 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh Inc, the giant insurance services firm, on Thursday announced a series of personnel moves including the naming of a series of new...

January 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compounded computer glitches have caused weeks of problems for the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) and thousands of its...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent poll of 507 small business owners or CEO's/Presidents commissioned by ShareBuilder 401(k) found the majority (61%) had never heard of the...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Utah Department of Health has announced a new program to give employed residents of the state assistance in paying for their employer-sponsored...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study has found that companies are increasingly moving sophisticated critical functions to China, India and other offshore locations mostly because that...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement with Cigna on a claim that the company's customer service call center in...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina arbitrator has started hearings into whether about 70 Philip Morris USA workers fired for lying on hardship withdrawal documents from...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly three-fourths (73%) of board members of US financial services firms surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they have been spending less time on strategic...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial risk management firm RiskMetrics Group announced Wednesday it will purchase Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a provider of proxy voting and corporate...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies will likely consider investment approaches that better hedge their long-term pension liabilities as they react to the Pension Protection Act (PPA) and...