As the job market heats up, more workers are saying an offer of more money won't be enough to make them choose one employer over another, according to a recent survey.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures pensions, is slowly running out of money, according to an independent analysis obtained by The New York Times.
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regs assist taxpayers in complying with the law when engaged in the transfer
of stock pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options. Additionally, the final regs clarify
rules regarding employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs), sometimes referred to
as statutory options.
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is urging Congress to allow
the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to decide whether companies
must count the stock options they grant to employees as expenses, Reuters reports.
After job creation slowed sharply in June and July, analysts began looking
for reasons to explain why. The New York Times reports that a major reason for
the slowdown is soaring healthcare costs.
As many as 7,000 workers who've applied for benefits under California's paid
family leave program are learning they'll have to wait as long as 6 weeks
for their checks to arrive from the state, according to the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
Following through on a proposal by President George W. Bush in his 2003 State
of the Union address, legislation has been introduced into both houses of Congress
creating Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs). RSAs are meant to simplify retirement
planning options by streamlining Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).
The U.S. House of Representatives last week voted 312-111 in favor of requiring publicly traded companies to treat stock options granted to top executives as expenses, USA Today reports.
