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May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Wal-Mart, Pennsylvania's largest private employer, might not feel so welcome with the introduction of legislation aimed at defraying state health-care costs.

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-For more than half of executives (54%), gaining measurable HR cost savings is the most appealing potential benefit of Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing (HR...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State governments around the country continue grappling with often-severe employee pension and benefit woes, including recent actions in states such as West Virginia,...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Accenture employee can't sue the consulting firm over changes in its leave of absence policies since the company partly retracted the rule...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that corporations cannot buy corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLIs) for all of their full-time workers because they...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two US House Democrats have introduced legislation putting a six-month moratorium on bankrupt companies transferring their pension plans to the US private pension...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled that a lesbian couple can pursue a loss of consortium claim against one partner's employer...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and retired United Airlines flight attendants has come up with a unique means of highlighting the plight of their...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increases in amphetamine use among employees appeared to be slowing in 2004 compared to the double-digit hikes seen the previous three years, according...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Georgia teachers and other state employees who smoke will have to dig deeper into their pockets starting July 1 to pay for their...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Whether a defined benefit or defined contribution program, workers like their employer's retirement plan to the point where having the plan may make...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers have resurrected several previous attempts to restrict companies from taking out corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLI) to top executives and highly compensated...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's equivalent of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is accepting responsibility for pension plans from companies on the edge of bankruptcy...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Great Bend, Kansas third party recordkeeper has enhanced its Plan Sponsor and Plan Participant Internet sites and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) telephone...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds accounted for $3.1 trillion, or 24%, of the $12.9 trillion US retirement market, according to the Investment Company Institute's (ICI) latest...

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has agreed to buy the Chicago-based ABN AMRO Trust Services Company with its defined contribution recordkeeping and investment services...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance premiums that financially healthy companies pay to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) would increase by more than twice those of their...

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has agreed that it won't oppose the efforts of United Airlines parent UAL Corp. to terminate the...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) showed off an odd political alliance Wednesday as she unveiled a new measure to reform the...

December 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 2004 promises to be more of a private equity kind of year - at least for two California pension plans.