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June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that workers' compensation premiums owed by an employer are not entitled to priority status under the section...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has filed a lawsuit accusing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of discriminating against female job applicants at one...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study found that the number of European firms using long-term incentives (LTI) has increased while those offering share options to their...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - John Hancock Financial Services Inc. has added seven mutual funds sub-advised by institutional asset manager GMO to its offerings within its 401(k) retirement...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group has announced that it has joined the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) benchmarking data consortium, a national repository of...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Birmingham, Alabama-based Compass Bank is now offering a new advisory service aimed at customers evaluating 401(k) plans and other benefit programs.

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Revelations about security breaches compromising personal customer data have continued in recent days with word that one provider's insurance customers and New York...

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US division of Sun Life Financial Inc. has announced a new Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) product that gives community and smaller regional...

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monster and Hire Disability Services have announced their new job resource Web site for job seekers with disabilities.

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Partha Dasgupta will suceed Myra Kinghorn as the chief executive officer of Britain's Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from a Washington-based think tank asserts that giant retailer Wal-Mart can afford to increase wages and still enjoy a "healthy"...

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While complaining about your boss to your co-workers or family is often fruitless, one group has come up with a way for venting...

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to feedback from dads asking their worth following its determination of stay-at-home moms' salaries, Salary.com has announced the Dad Salary Wizard.

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are lots of long faces these days among workers in the telecommunications industry, and that employee dissatisfaction is broad based.

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not one of the 291 respondents to the father-specific portion of a recent Monster.com survey listed paternity leave as a valued benefit.

June 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a unanimous ruling, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a worker who hurt herself while returning to work from lunch is...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) specified Thursday how to calculate the liability that occurs when an employer closes its operations and causes...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Iowa manufacturer of tire retreading materials and equipment has closed its pension plans to new US and Canada hires and has frozen...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Facing a tight labor market, Canadian employers are increasingly trying to find ways to attract and keep key talent, including offering flexible work...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resources company Hewitt Associates Inc. has announced that its chairman and chief executive officer Dale Gifford plans to retire at the end...