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With passage of pro-labor legislation likely, bosses advised to up the contentment quotient on the shop floor....
 
Insurers pay sizeable tabs when overweight employees file work claims. Health-care claims larger, too....
 
(Crain’s)—Labor groups are targeting industries they believe they have a good chance of organizing should a new law be...
 
 
New provisions kick in on March 1. Here's a primer on what bosses need to know....
 
 
Corporations required to disclose details about plan-provider fees. The catch? Plan providers still not required to pony up that info....
 
(Business Insurance)—The Coca-Cola Co. is adopting a cash balance pension plan for new and current employees....
 
(Irate retirees to fight Delphi over nixed health-care coverage (Automotive News)—Delphi Corp.’s retired salaried employees have formed an organization to fight the bankrupt auto parts supplier’s decision to eliminate...
 
(Business Insurance)—Employers will have to scramble to comply with federal legislation providing a subsidy of COBRA health insurance premiums...
 
 
Aim to win clients spooked by low yields—and redemption woes—of money-market funds....
 
 
Group wants to take bazooka to money-market funds. A popgun would do the trick, says industry veteran....
 
 
Injured workers delaying return to uncertain jobs. Meanwhile, laid-off staffers are filing new injury claims....
 
 
Returns may be lousy, but fund managers not likely to raise fees when—wait for it—returns are lousy....
 
(Business Insurance)—Employees who are laid off between Sept. 1, 2008, and Dec....
 
One in four companies has instituted salary freezes for 2009, according to a new survey from Mercer. And that total may rise to one in three employers by the time 2009 budgets are finalized, the...
 
(InvestmentNews)—Enrollment in prepaid-college-tuition programs has soared since the financial crisis began last fall....
 
(Business Insurance)—The federal government would pay 50% of COBRA health care premiums for up to 12 months for employees who are laid off from ...
 
 
Much-publicized mutual-fund offerings have not exactly fared well during the market downturn....
 
 
How traditional calculations of alpha distort investment managers' actual performance....
 
 
Congress's effort to help out laid-off workers will leave bosses with an adminstrative pain....
 

 
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