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March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers interested in getting employee health care from a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) now have an addition online data source to help...

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors hoping for a health-care cost respite in 2004 might keep an eye on Sacramento this week.

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal and external communication of corporate strategic goals is being measured infrequently among organizations, if they do it at all.

March 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unsettled markets sent roughly a third of participants heading to more stable investments in the fourth quarter, but older workers were significantly more...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumers are twice as likely to use the Internet to research a new car purchase or major family vacation than prepare for a...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies are making changes to their executive compensation policies and practices in light of current economic, regulatory and governance trends.

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one in three Americans, or 74.7 million people under the age of 65, were without health insurance at some point in 2001...

March 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Men in the US are job hopping more often than they used to and are now less likely to hang onto a position...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10% of employees who file occupational or non-occupational disability claims drive 55% of employee medical costs and up to 66% of all...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of health care benefits escalated even more than US employers had forecast in their budgets last year, leaving some employers to...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, the confidence level of US workers plummeted in February to an all-time low - dragged down by worries about the nation's...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR professionals at national companies still have to face a historic truth about compensation: Employees' addresses can affect the size of their paycheck.

March 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three female workers at Union Pacific Corp. have sued the largest US railroad to try to force it to add contraception coverage to...

March 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Catholic Charities Maine has filed a lawsuit accusing the city of Portland of religious discrimination, by withholding public funds from the organization for...

March 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of new legislation to mandate mental health insurance coverage be on par with treatment for physical conditions have named the bill after...

March 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees in California have experienced a slowed economy as well as double-digit health insurance premium increases and a higher share of rapidly rising...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - College basketball's annual "March Madness" national championship tournament could end up costing employers $1.4 billion.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite losses in the equity markets, 401(k) participants have not given up on long-term approaches in their retirement vehicle.

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent trend of compensation cuts hitting hard at the pocketbooks of financial-services company executives continues with an announcement from the Goldman Sachs...

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Departing Chief Executive Officers (CEO) received exit packages in 2002 and 2001 that averaged $16.5 million.