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May 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Missouri poultry processing plant has agreed to pay $1.2 million in back pay to more than five thousand current and former employees...

May 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by New York Life released Monday found that some Americans were overestimating how much they can safely withdraw from their retirement...

May 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. says it has reached a proposed $4.75 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by workers claiming that company...

May 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Media company Media General Inc. has become the latest in a long line of employers to shift emphasis from a defined benefit to...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a retiree who depended on the advice...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a discrimination suit against United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) on behalf of a fired veteran...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ousted Fannie Mae chairman and chief executive Franklin Raines is slated to receive over $19 million in cash and stock, plus a large...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Clay Shaw (R-Florida) has introduced HR 5314, the 401Kids Family Savings Act of 2006, which will allow parents to establish savings...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision that an employer did not act arbitrarily when it denied...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision that an employer did not act arbitrarily when it denied...

May 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said the pension bill now being reconciled between the House and Senate will likely include a...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff members reversed course on a decision made several weeks ago to allow Walt Disney Co. to...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Calvert typically shines its socially responsible investing (SRI) spotlight on companies in which it invests, the Bethesda, Maryland fund family has...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio's School Employees Retirement System (SERS) has issued a request for information for a US small-cap equity investment manager.

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers surveyed said they anticipate a 10% increase in the cost of providing health care to their employees in 2006, but can only...

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worldwide mutual fund assets reached $17.77 trillion at the end of fourth quarter 2005, according to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Summer job prospects are looking brighter this year, the Wall Street Journal reports.

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Highland Hospital of Rochester, New York, has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle Hispanic workers' discrimination complaints that it prohibited seven workers, who...

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the lead of lawmakers in Massachusetts and Vermont, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm unveiled a universal health care plan for her state Thursday...

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average American working household has held steady in its retirement savings effort, according to a recent index that tracks retirement readiness.