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August 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has granted class-action status to a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against soap maker Dial Corp by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of WorldCom workers has accused the telecommunications company of discriminating against them based on race, age and sex.

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of minority-owned businesses in the US continues to rise, and nearly 40% of them are owned by women, according to the...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate bond investing has been treacherous this year, with more corporate bond defaults in the first six months than in all of 2000,...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The second quarter lemon list, which lists the 401(k) funds that have performed worse than their peer group averages, has been posted.

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Today Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao kicks off a series of hearings on work-related injuries --but key Democrats have already accused the forum of...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsor clients of The Chicago Trust Company will be able to provide their plan participants with access to mPower's advice services and...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Employers prevail in more than two-thirds of job discrimination suits in federal court ? and then win nearly half of the cases lost...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new training program unveiled by a Des Moines, Iowa company covers the always sticky topic of business ethics.

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) clients of Pan-American Life will have a wider fund choice as the New Orleans-based financial services company adds 18 fund options to...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union annual financial reports are now more accessible now that they have been posted on a new US Department of Labor (DoL) Web...

June 28, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and employees have been subjected to a great deal of information - and potential misinformation - about cash balance conversions over...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an era when corporate governance issues have never been more widely publicized, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is offering institutional investors an evaluation...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside a bid from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. to limit disclosure of company salary and promotion...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant loan repayments become assets of an employer retirement plan as soon as they can reasonably be separated from the company's general funds.

May 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While 80% of medium and large employers sponsor a retirement plan, less than half (46%) of firms with less than 100 employees offers...

May 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The best-paid chief corporate financial officers earn more than $600,000 in total annual compensation and tend to work for organizations who employ 10,000...

May 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of defined benefit (DB) plan returns fell short of expectations last year, and while most plan sponsors took steps to address the...

April 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former manager of Putnam Investments' defined contribution business, has been named vice president and chief operating officer of the US asset management...

April 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The unemployment rate inched up by 0.2% in March, a further sign that the economic recovery is struggling to take hold.