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November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The total combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) shot up 9.4% to $383.3 billion in October, according to an Investment Company...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Revenue Ruling 2006-57, announcing that smart cards and terminal-restricted debit cards are qualified transportation fringe benefits...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California Home Depot employee injured when a shelf full of lumber fell on his leg is entitled to psychiatric injury-related workers' compensation...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a lower court decision that a pre-employment "strength test" discriminated against female applicants...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the Bush Administration on Monday told US Supreme Court justices that they should enforce a...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2006-105 providing procedures for electing an alternative deficit reduction contribution for airline employers given an...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has ruled that an individual's pension in the form of an annuity under...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The corporate carnage over issues relating to the stock options backdating scandal continued Wednesday with the announcement from online employment firm Monster Worldwide...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly nine in 10 small and medium-sized businesses in a recent survey pointed to rising health care coverage expenses as their firm's biggest...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-six percent of retail employees responding to a survey sponsored by Kronos Incorporated said they may walk off the job this holiday season.

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just over a third of chief executives of fast-growing private companies polled in a recent survey listed increasing health care and pension costs...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new academic study of instances of stock options backdating between 1996 and 2005 has found a correlation between the backdating practices and...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc. finds NYSE 100 and the NASDAQ 100 companies are shifting boards of directors'...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that the widow of a drunk driver was due accidental...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida Sheriff's Department has sued Nationwide Life Insurance Co., over allegations Nationwide's retirement plan fees unfairly allowed the company to make a...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has denied a former employee's motion for summary judgment on her claim that...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Baby Boomers may not have been the best role models when it comes to retirement savings, and the overwhelming majority recognizes that and...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average starting salaries for legal professionals in the United States are projected to rise 4.7% in 2007, according to a new study by...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A continuing shortage of nurses and growing shortage of physicians has meant emergency department staff salaries are surging while compensation for emergency department...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The highest-paid executives in America have received a 48.2% increase in their average annual cash bonus and were paid 31.2% more total cash...