Benefits

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A no-show employee can cost an employer a bundle of money regardless of whether those calling in sick are actually ill.

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers evaluating service delivery of their employee health-care plans will soon be armed with a bit more ammunition.

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifty-two percent of all adults report their medical out-of-pocket expenses are higher this year, and many place the blame on prescription drug prices...

December 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women are 63% more likely die in traffic accidents on a Friday the 13th than other Fridays during a month, according to new...

December 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones & Company has agreed to amend one of its insurance policies to allow for coverage of prescription contraceptives, according to Washington-based...

December 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifty-nine percent of employees are purchasing voluntary benefits at work and 61% are interested in having their employer provide a wider array of...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third of workers have made a change to their retirement asset allocation in the past quarter - and nearly half...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early indications are that employers are increasingly interested in consumer-driven health-care alternatives - and not just because it saves them money, according to...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ninety-three percent of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) report a large correlation between the quality of their companies' health benefits and the strength of...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When executives at US multinational companies gaze into their crystal balls, many don't see a lot to sing for joy about, a new...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what has become something of a holiday "tradition," two major personal computer makers are sending workers home without pay for the December...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private employers spent a total of $334.5 billion on health services and supplies in 2000, and nearly three-quarters of that total was for...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rising costs and reduced availability have continued to erode health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollment in the Lone Star State.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-eight percent of employers are concerned that modest pay increases may be contributing to lowered employee morale, according to a survey by Deloitte...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're buried under an ever-growing swarm of emails - you're one of the few, according to a new survey.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Airlines' filing for Chapter 11 also includes plans to cut corporate officers' pay by an average 11% and that of salaried and...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average 2003 salary hike is higher than 2002, but not by much, according to a new survey.

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) While many Americans fret about how to pay for long-term care when they grow old, few have taken steps to deal with that problem,...

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - British blue chip user group The Infrastructure Forum (Tif) warns that those "out of office" emails may tip thieves off to your vacation...

December 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Catholic Charities Maine is taking the city of Portland to court over a requirement to offer domestic partner benefits to its employees.