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April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US government owes a great deal to its workers - $3.6 trillion to cover pension, disability and health care costs for civilian...

January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average stock option overhang levels increased to 14.6% in 2000, from 13% the previous year, reversing a five-year trend during which overhang growth...

January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Demand for technology workers may have slacked off after the boom in the nineties, but human resources professionals should still be keeping their...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois overturned a decision by a plan administrator to cut off disability payments to an office clerk after the...

April 13, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The TIAA-CREF Institute sponsored its first Corporate Governance Forum, where issues related to executive pay were up for discussion.

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six out of 10 clients of an investment company that specializes in the Catholic institutional market, say abortion is the issue they were...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur Andersen says its insurance carrier is unable to pay a promised $217 million to settle lawsuits filed after the 1999 collapse of...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research on the practice of staggering the terms of corporate boards finds that it slashed shareholder returns as much as 10% for...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices changed their mind about a Florida age discrimination case, saying they will not decide the issue on its merits...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing a Chicago meatpacking company for allegedly discriminating in its hiring of African-American job candidates.

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Goldman Sachs could be charged with securities fraud in the wake of its role in releasing information about the US Treausury's decision to...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois overturned a decision by a plan administrator to cut off disability payments to an office clerk after the...

April 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IBM shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a nonbinding shareholder proposal that would have called on the computer giant to offer all employees the same choice...

April 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scoring a point in favor of human contact, only 13% of corporate treasury and bank officials reported trading currency online, according to a...

April 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Data from surveys on 217 technology companies collected in 1999 and 2000 revealed that profits for shareholders rose when the ratio of options...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under the US Postal Service (USPS)'s new dispute resolution initiative, virtually all requests for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) hearings on discrimination cases...

January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The unemployment situation deteriorated further in December, the unemployment rate rising to 5.8%, from a revised 5.6% in November, according to data released...

March 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Poor stock market returns cut into pension funding levels by 10-15% last year, according to a new Towers Perrin report.

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobs lost last year was the highest since Challenger, Gray and Christmas started keeping count in 1993, according to data...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost three-quarters of American savers with a workplace retirement plan will likely increase their contributions in 2002 following the passage of the Economic...