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IRS Will Tax 401(k) Savings Used to Buy Retiree Health Coverage

The IRS, in its proposed rules, says Congress has ‘carefully and strictly limited the a...

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Union Urges Auditors to Dig Deeper for Exec Options Excesses

Old filings could reveal illegal backdating and should include records from 34 days bef...

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Cuts at Monster Not Expected to Hamper Service

If things go as planned, industry experts say Monster Worldwide’s sweeping cutbacks, wh...

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Percentage of Workers Covered by Employer-Supplied Health Insurance Declines

The Census Bureau reports that the percentage of people covered by employer-based healt...

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Silencing the Alarmists

The forecasted labor shortage is at best a demographic ripple, and not the giant tidal ...

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Hewitt Acquires Middle-Market Health Benefits Administrator

The company has spent the past several months working to revive its HRO business. In Ma...

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Recruiters in India Put Out the Call to American Workers

Because filling temporary, hourly jobs can be a low-margin business, some recruiters ha...

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Drug Maker’s HR Business Formula

HR executives at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals U.S. sat down to discuss what the company ...