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August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Healthcare has introduced its new magazine on issues relating to employee health care, Trailblazer, for employee benefits managers, brokers, consultants, and health...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) plans to propose a regulation by the end of the year that will encourage employers to use automatic...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor has issued final approval of amendments to prohibited transaction rules outlining...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Executives haven't given up the notion of taking time off to raise children and to then return to the workforce, but many fear...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has breathed new life into a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former Fulton County, Georgia workers who claimed they...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former United Parcel Service (UPS) manager, who was fired for allegedly falsifying a worker's time sheet, has been awarded almost $21 million...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued a Wisconsin restaurant for allegedly ignoring a job application for nineteen-year-old Korrin Krause because she...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is hosting a half day conference of some of the state's largest, most influential public and...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Upholding a lower court ruling, federal appellate judges have cleared an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustee of wrongdoing in connection with the...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study sponsored by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) reveals a significant gap in what small employers have to pay for...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California lawmakers are scheduled to vote on legislation that would allow hundreds of retired state workers to take advantage of the state's Domestic...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now has a bill on his desk that guarantees state workers on active military duty won't lose salary or...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of 52 large US employers is calling on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to not only pass on to clients their prescription...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The list of ailing pension plans seeking the shelter of the nation's private-sector pension insurer continued apace Friday.

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard has acquired Pyramid Digital Solutions, a provider of Web-based applications for the retirement plan industry.

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna has announced a new program that lets consumers find out the price for health services before going for care.

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Princeton, New Jersey-based plan provider has unveiled a socially responsible investing (SRI) K plan.

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though divided on the issue, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer's comment that the company was actively seeking to...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the trustees of the Cleveland-based Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 pension plan for...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail companies that sell groceries would have to make substantial contributions toward their employees' health insurance coverage costs according to a bill that...