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June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers in California now have another potential weapon in their fight against employment discrimination as a result of a state appeals court ruling...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company has posted its preliminary lists of companies that will join or leave the broad-market Russell 3000 Index when the firm...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former postal worker should have been granted Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for her daughter, who had a...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index returned 2.71% in May, its largest monthly gain in over two years.

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer-sponsored retirement plan or other type of lender can't charge borrowers on military leave more than 6% interest, under a bill approved...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hospital's state law claim alleging a health plan negligently represented that it would provide coverage for a plan participant's medical care is...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Dave Weldon (R-Florida) has introduced HR 2439 to repeal the 1993 Social Security tax increase and postpone the required distribution age...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers who take pension benefits in an annuity would be allowed to shield $3,000 of that money from federal income tax under a...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA's anti-alienation provision doesn't shield a participant whose only assets are in a pension fund from having to make court-ordered restitution, according to...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move by a New Orleans-area supermarket company to drop its grocery voucher program for retirees violated ERISA because the voucher program was...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company may have had an illegal clause in a waiver of rights release agreement prohibiting an older worker from filing a federal...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina state worker organization on Friday won the chance to make its case to a state appeals court that Governor Mike...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers trying to figure out how Uncle Sam's latest basket of changes in federal tax law might after their paycheck now have another...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Keyboardists, rejoice. That tingling feeling may just be excitement.

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private industry employer compensation costs averaged $22.37 per hour in March 2003, while state and local government compensation costs were at $23.93 per...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Presidential hopeful Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) unveiled his pension-reform proposals during a campaign swing through northern Iowa, calling for curbs on pension...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Slide rules and ledger sheets are a thing of the past for accounting graduates; finance chiefs are now also looking for information technology...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accepting a staff recommendation, the California Public Employees' Retirement System's (CalPERS) board is considering opening up on its private equity investments, according to...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workforce reductions, reduced competitive pressure for employee talent, and concerns about potential accounting charges for options have all contributed to a decline in...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's HMOs enjoyed a whopping 162% profit increase during the first quarter of 2002 over the year before, a Florida research company...