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January 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ex-personal assistant to Laurence Fishburne has charged the actor with sexual discrimination for using her pregnancy as excuse to fire her.

January 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Kingdom's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is inviting the public to give opinions on proposed pension reforms.

January 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Princeton, Minnesota school bus driver claims she was fired from her job for being a witch.

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford Motor Company is now offering laid-off workers at its Edison, New Jersey truck plant a deal to pay for the employee's college...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Reason Foundation, in its June 2005 study "The Gathering Pension Storm", recommended terminating defined benefit plans for public employees, arguing that policymakers...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a lower court that a 911 dispatcher for the City of Aurora, Illinois...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real average weekly earnings increased just 0.1% from November to December 2005, according to the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-four percent of employees surveyed by Hudson said the most recent employer-provided training they attended was probably not worth their time.

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal government employees and postal workers can turn to the new Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) L-Fund Analyzer to help them figure out which...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIM Investments has launched AIM PlanForward Module 4 - Designing Effective Employee Education Programs.

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Salary.com survey indicates that 65% of workers plan on looking for a new job in the next three months with the...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans has released 'Wellness Programs', the tenth publication in its Survey & Sample Series.

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reuters has launched Reuters DataScope Select, a pricing data delivery system.

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study released by the Employment Policies Institute shows that laws mandating employer-provided health care coverage do little to decrease the number...

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the lead of fellow lawmakers in Maryland, the West Virginia state legislature is now considering a proposal to force employers with 10,000...

January 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Justice has filed a class-action lawsuit against American Airlines for violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act...

January 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owners of 13 California residential care facilities have paid $637,000 in back overtime pay to more than 200 health care workers after...

January 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aluminum manufacturing giant Alcoa on Monday joined a parade of companies retreating from their defined benefit pensions with word that new hires after...

January 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third (35%) of retail workers said they will look for new jobs in 2006, according to a CareerBuilder.com survey.

January 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued FAQs regarding Roth 401(k) contributions to provide further understanding of the feature, new in 2006.