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December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Ryan's Family Steakhouse Inc. for creating a racially hostile work environment when a manager displayed...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The third report in a series on income replacement rates for current retirees from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College shows...

December 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early Tuesday morning, New York City's local transit union decided to strike after reaching a deadlock, primarily over pension benefits for new employees,...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced a new online claim submission form available immediately for group long-term and short-term disability customers.

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has announced the availability of its health savings account (HSA) beginning January 1, 2007.

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unilever has announced the launch of a new cross-border pension pooling vehicle.

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIG VALIC has launched HealthSecure HRA, a health reimbursement arrangement to help public employers manage the growing cost of providing post-employment health care.

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the apocalyptic predictions of the effects of massive numbers of retiring baby boomers in the systems designed to care for them, a...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Midwest area companies say they plan to give employees an average salary increase of 3.3% based primarily on merit, and most anticipate normal...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has issued final regulations interpreting the law that protects employment and reemployment rights and benefits of service...

December 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a budget plan that includes a $3,750 per participant fee for employers who terminate their pension...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wheaton, Illinois firm is scheduled to launch the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio - the first ETF based on fundamental indexing...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FASCore, LLC, the recordkeeping arm of Great-West Retirement Services, is getting ready for the new Roth retirement savings contributions.

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK authorities have announced that employers operating defined benefit plans would pay a total of £575 million ($1.01 billion) to finance the pension...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even corporate executives do dumb and embarrassing things at work.

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a California supermarket company on charges it participated in a widespread scheme to secretly rehire...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California company has agreed to a $255,000 settlement of a lawsuit against its hamburger company alleging that a shift manager at one...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that real average hourly earnings is up to $16.35 for November 2005, an...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Conference Board survey found that 77% of companies surveyed want the development of their global employee talent to go more quickly.

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that a pension plan retiree may not substitute his current wife for...