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September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines has settled a suit brought by a Muslim woman denied a job because she wanted to wear a religious headscarf at...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most workers are safer in the office than they were before September 11, but security procedures are still inconsistently enforced at some smaller...

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japan's version of the 401(k) plan cleared another hurdle today ? setting the stage for a vote in the Upper House plenary session...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment rate dipped to a five-month low in August at 5.7%, but the domestic job-making machine is apparently still largely moribund,...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a new series of performance benchmarks might find a solution in a new series of indexes from FTSE.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Retirement Consulting (NTRC) is cutting the wires, expanding its Retirement Passport to include wireless applications for 401(k) plan participants.

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to simplify its identity in all parts of the retirement plan services market, New York Life Investment Management LLC (NYLIM)...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - mPower and Standard & Poor's have formed a strategic alliance that will bring S&P's Retirement Services business, including advice technology, products and customers...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless claims posted a drop, but still clung stubbornly to the key 400,000 mark for the second straight week.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in self-directed accounts mirrored the motions of the market in the second quarter, shirking stocks and heading for the relative safety of...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Times Job Market Confidence Index, which regularly polls New York area hiring managers and job seekers, dropped 10 points in...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pace of global hedge fund launches cooled considerably during the first quarter of 2002, a possible sign that the alternative investment market...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the focus of most AT&T investors at this week's annual meeting will be the vote that could set the stage for a...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have an online means of monitoring plan investments against their investment policy statement, courtesy of a new product from Walker...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jurists dividing up community property in a divorce case could use a spouse's likely retirement date as the benchmark for the current value...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Co.'s mechanics union will keep talking with a team of federal mediators in an attempt to avoid a strike until it "tells...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A life insurance administrator was in the right when it turned down benefits to the widow of a Minnesota pharmacist who allegedly took...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Burlington Northern Santa Fe has agreed to pay 36 employees a total of up to $2.2 million to settle a genetic-testing case with the...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on trends in retiree health benefits.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...