Benefits

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former UBS PaineWebber system administrator is facing chares of sabotaging two-thirds of the company's computer systems to crash its stock price, according...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's apparently no respite in sight for employer healthcare costs, according to a new report from Buck Consultants.

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 2,700 Hershey Foods Corp. unionized employees who staged a strike earlier this year in a dispute over insurance benefits are trying to...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-six percent of baby boomers are not saving for retirement, with 70% saying they intend to rely on Social Security, according to a...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US health care industry appears to be the hardest hit by problems in attracting and keeping employees, while the tech sector is...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines is allowing its top executives to trade hundreds of thousands of worthless stock options for shares more likely to be money-makers...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Abbe Favocci is taking her chance at weighing in on Weight Watchers' decision to fire her as a meeting leader after she put...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The medical care index, a component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose 0.6% in November, according to the US Department of Labor...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worker under the age of 30 are 38% less likely to have calculated the amount of savings necessary for a comfortable retirement than...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers say they are better at appraising employees than providing coaching and ongoing performance feedback, the Mercer Effective Performance Management Practices Survey has...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of US Latinos shows that they have different views than non-Hispanics about being successful in an American workplace as well...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to CareerBuilder.com's "On the Job 2002" survey, nearly half (45%) of skilled and hourly workers said it would take less than a...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wage increases for workers in most countries should manage to stay ahead of inflation next year, according to new research.

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has announced the incorporation of 68 additional federal benefit programs to their government benefit information Web site...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest survey of a national compensation professionals' group found good news and bad news.

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Contractors doing business with the city of Minneapolis of more than $100,000 will have to give domestic partner benefits to their workers within...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer costs of employee compensation reached $23.44 per hour worked in September 2002, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) won't get another shot at organizing Delta Air Lines flight attendants even though the union complained the...

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey companies aggressively shifted the burden of health care costs to their employees in 2002, keeping the cost increase below the national...

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer-sponsored medical insurance plans have seen premium increases of up to 50% in the second half of 2002, according to a survey by...