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June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has remanded a case back to the lower court to decide whether a travel accident insurance plan participant was...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegedly terminating a Dell Computer Corp. employee on account of a disability, may lead to immediate vesting of unexercised stock options.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers shelved long-simmering partisan debate over Medicare reform long enough for both houses to pass sweeping Medicare legislation giving seniors a prescription...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Opponents of a new overtime bill backed by the Bush Administration say that eight million workers could forfeit their right to overtime under...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans' personal income rose by 0.3%, or $27.1 billion, in May.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The percentage of new bond funds among all mutual funds issued in 2003 rocketed up to 32% from just 15% in 2000, as...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of a dead pension plan participant isn't entitled to surviving spouse benefits on top of those selected by her husband on...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed suit against a host of players in an attempt to recover retirement plan losses at Enron,...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled a suit against Nike Inc. can proceed, rejecting the company's contentions that is advertising speech was constitutionally...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurance company didn't violate a federal anti-discrimination law by sacking a worker who had reportedly threatened "to take a few people out"...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors in search of a provider can now get both defined contribution and defined benefit plan services from Nationwide Financial.

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans joining the queue for initial unemployment benefits plunged for the second week in a row - but the total...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employers underwent 1,699 mass layoffs in May 2003 involving 173,784 people, according to new data from the US Department of Labor's Bureau...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Domestic equity mutual funds matched a strong performance with a $12.6 billion inflow of funds in May, according to the Investment Company Institute...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee for a maternity clothier claims she was humiliated, belittled, demeaned and ultimately terminated for being pregnant.

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Kraft Food Inc. have reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving allegations that a...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a suit against Boeing Co., claiming gender-based harassment and retaliation against a female...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) companies view their human resource (HR) organizations as strategic partners that add significant value...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Large US companies may well lead the nation's job recovery, even though small businesses have traditionally been first to pull out of a...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) head has been tapped by a budding Sacramento venture capital firm to help raise money...