UPS Suspends 401(k) Match

Package delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc. has suspended its 401(k) plan match for management and other nonunion employees.

Before the suspension, which took effect Sunday, February 1, UPS matched 100 percent of employees’ salary deferrals up to the first 3 percent of pay.

The suspension comes as UPS, like so many other corporations, has seen revenue and earnings decline as the economy has slowed.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, revenue declined 5.2 percent compared with 2007 to $12.7 billion, while operating profit, excluding certain one-time events, slipped 25.4 percent during the same period to $1.38 billion.

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Filed by Jerry Geisel of Business Insurance, a sister publication of Workforce Management. To comment, e-mail editors@workforce.com.

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