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April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- Six workers at the Washington state Department of Labor (DoL) have been fired for what is believed to be excessive use of their work...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The biggest contributor to last year's whopping 13.7% increase in health care costs in the US, was prescription drugs, a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The employment cost index, a key inflation gauge, increased by 0.8% over the first quarter of 2002, down from a seasonally adjusted 1%...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The self-employed are confident that their businesses will do well as the economy rebounds, a new survey finds.

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a sign that the economic recovery has not yet taken hold, the Conference Board's Help-Wanted Advertising Index fell by one point in...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lines of workers filing for first time unemployment benefits got a little shorter this week, yet the numbers still remain high, new...

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA) has named Glenda Chambers its new executive director.

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has named PricewaterhouseCoopers executive Robert Herz to succeed its outgoing chairman, Edmund Jenkins.

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The popularity of flexible work schedules exploded in the last decade as the percentage of flextime workers doubled to nearly 30% in 2001,...

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 1,460 mass layoff actions in March 2002 a small decrease from February's total of 1,383, new data from the US Department...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the battle to cope with an increased workload brought on by increased staff cuts, American workers are spending more and more time...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The current crop of college students and recent graduates seems to be the most pessimistic in recent memory.

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While recruiters still ask candidates to list their strengths and weaknesses - they don't appear to be giving much credence to the answers,...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the unemployment rate at 5.7% and an economic recovery still struggling to take hold, this year's estimated three million new graduates will...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recruiters offered fewer relocation packages over the first three months of 2002, continuing a decline that began last year, the latest Job Market...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets invested in exchange traded funds (ETF) added up to $88.2 billion at the close of March 2002, up 10% from the previous...

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Orbitex Financial Services Group, Inc., has consolidated several units and brought them under new management for the firm.

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former senior executive at Advanced Micro Devices has sued his former employer, alleging he was forced out after the September 11 attacks...

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A county audit revealed the final cost of pension and wage payments for Milwaukee County employees to be more than five times higher...

April 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) unveiled a new Web page containing information on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs for federal government agencies.