Small business owners take human resources counsel seriously when making employee benefit decisions, even though they don't always agree on what's important, a study finds.
You've probably seen a web-style auction by now on the web, maybe on eBay. Well now there is an auction-style Web site where, for the first time, health plans compete directly online for corporate clients.
The season for benefits enrollment has arrived, and the consulting firm Hewitt Associates is offering some guidelines that employees can follow in making their choices.
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citigroup, and IBM lead Working Mother Magazine's 16th-annual list of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers," published in this month's issue.
Thanks in large part to employers, an estimated 54.8 million households, or 52 percent of the total in the U.S., own mutual funds, according to new survey results from the Investment Company Institute.
Aetna's recently announced venture into medical savings accounts is just one of many new offers to employers who've been stunned by double-digit increases in health insurance premiums, according to the American Medical News.
Thousands of people remain missing but not offically dead in the World Trade Center attack, and that is creating problems for families trying to collect on insurance policies, get access to bank accounts, and execute wills, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Some of the families of those killed in the World Trade Center attack now stand to receive no more than $30,000 in direct aid, officials of government and private relief efforts tell The New York Times.
Because of the World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters, the U.S. Department of Labor has announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500s and Form 5500-EZs. It has also issued general guidance on ERISA compliance regarding benefit plans affected by Tuesday's national disaster.
