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Workers Addicted to Web

August 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees may not be hiding liquor bottles under their desks or ducking into a restroom for a furtive snort of drugs, but the...
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Boeing Bid Falls Short: Union

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing negotiators put their first offer on the table Friday, but the proposed pension increase is a fraction of what union negotiators have...
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Funds Flee Stock Funds in July

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors dumped stock mutual funds at a record pace of $49 billion last month, as previous outflows turned into a raging torrent.
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Health Coverage Fails to Spread

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite an economic boom, the late 1990s didn't see much expansion in the number of workers covered by employer-provided healthcare.
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Summer Heat Pumps Up US Equity Funds

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent market rallies have pumped a little lifeblood back into the average stock fund, which still lagged the S&P 500 according to mutual...
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ETFs Dip in July

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total assets of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) dipped ever so slightly in July to $88.27 billion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute...
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Job Prospects Remain Bleak

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers and job seekers responding to a recent poll aren't painting a bright picture of this year's job market.
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Mass Layoffs Cool Off In July

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 2,041 mass layoffs in July 2002 involving 245,457 workers, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),...
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Jobless Claims Dip Slightly

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the jobless claims numbers appeared to wilt in last week's heat, slipping slightly to 389,000, a drop of 2,000 from the week...
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GE Workers Make Overtime Claim

August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric has classified certain workers at its aircraft engine unit as salaried employees so it can wriggle out of paying them overtime...