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January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calling referendums ``one of the most precious rights of our democratic process," California's 1st District Court of Appeals said the state's residents should...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee benefits cost 42.3% of payroll in 2002, an increase from 2001's 39%.

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cheering for the New England Patriots or Carolina Panthers to victory at the February 1 Super Bowl is one thing around the TV...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack wants to put his state on the roster of state and local governments trying to institute a Canadian prescription...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of law firms participating in a recent survey offered medical benefits to domestic partners of their employees while two-thirds of that...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The human resources function in the US is really coming into its own with a whole raft of strategic responsibilities, an industry survey...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The equity markets were good for the median Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) defined benefit plan, which was up 24.2% in 2003.

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans lining up for first-time jobless claims was nearly flat last week, with a scant 1,000 decrease to 341,000 from...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - December proved to be a difficult month for the nation's unemployed with the number of mass layoffs and the amount of involved workers...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One month after chalking up a $16.5-billion asset advance in November, US mutual funds ended December with a $10.8-billion outflow.

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch and Wealth Management Systems (WMSI) have linked up in order to offer retirement plan participants paperless online tools to carry out...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is undertaking a formal review of how cash balance defined benefit plans are valued - a...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In protest of the Bush administration's plans to rewrite the "white collar" exemption provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), US Senate...

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has, once again, extended the deadline for GUST determination letter applications that had been due January 31.

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal workers who have repeatedly gone to the financial well for a loan from their 401(k) plan will now find the exercise a...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary budget increase rates in 2004 will remain unchanged from 2003's 3.5%.

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Using profanity to describe a previous boss and eating a sandwich during the interview were among the best examples of what not to...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman William Thomas (R - California) has sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is pushing forward with plans to revamp Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions, despite objections from a Republican...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The only way to be an effective consumer of alternative investments is basically to go whole hog, a new study found.