Benefits

November 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seventy-three percent of HR professionals believe their company has clearly stated its strategic direction, but only 44% feel the strategic direction was communicated...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania employer has introduced a new policy designed to cut down on profanity in the workplace - and pay for the office...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what was described as a "historic" agreement by federal mediators, West Coast dockworkers and shipping companies reached a tentative six-year contract agreement...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securian Retirement Services has unveiled new 401(k) statements, incorporating easy-to-understand language and color graphics, to assist plan participants in understanding their retirement accounts,...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seventy-eight percent of small businesses said they plan to do something special for their employees this holiday season, according to a recent American...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate techies are generally happy with their pay, their relationships with peers and supervisors and their physical work environment despite IT layoffs and...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seventeen Bristol, England exotic dancers have joined the General Municipal and Boilermakers' Union (GMB) in an effort to see working conditions in the...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a court injunction keeping union officials out of Wal-Mart's 3,200 US stores, the nation's largest private employer continues locked in an intense...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - John Hancock Financial Services has changed its severance package to bring policies more in line with that of its competitors.

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A tax credit given to companies for on-site child-care is going unused, prompting calls from The National Women's Law Center to give the...

November 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care plan costs continue to increase with prescription plans' nearly 20% increase leading the pack, and with dental plans showing increases similar...

November 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SurveyWriter has released details of an online survey product that human resource departments can use to gauge employee opinion and attitudes.

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Next spring, a federal court jury in St. Louis will get the opportunity to ponder an important question: Is Angelisa Garrett's hair color...

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retiree health-care benefits didn't get much of a boost during the boom 1990s and should erode increasingly quickly in years to come, a...

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One-third of surveyed companies are adjusting their 2003 pay increase budgets, according to Mercer Human Resources Consulting.

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock option overhang reached 14.7% in 2001, up from 13.8% in 2000, according to Watson Wyatt Worldwide.

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey underlining the growing popularity of home Internet use comes as more companies are putting information about retirement plans and other benefits...

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DuPont will implement new programs to their employee benefit plan, beginning in 2003, in an effort to curb rising health care costs.

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-seven percent of companies surveyed said they would not be offering any type of holiday bonus this year, according to Hewitt Associates' 2002...

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DuPont will implement new programs to their employee benefit plan, beginning in 2003, in an effort to curb rising health care costs.