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The economy has made consumers more cautious about health care spending and forced some to reduce it considerably, according to a Deloitte Center for Health Solutions survey.

McKinsey unravels, the Feds are coming and compliance can be kind of funny sometimes.

More effective benefits communication can translate into greater participation in workplace supplemental life programs.

The leader of the New Jersey Assembly has agreed to post a bill requiring all public workers to pay more for health care and pension benefits for a hearing, despite an initial reluctance to move the measure forward without a majority of Democrats backing it.

More than 14,000 workers at the newly merged United and Continental airlines will start voting July 7 on whether to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union.

The United Mine Workers said Monday it has reached a tentative labor agreement with coal producers that employ thousands of its members around the country.

NFL employees have had their salaries trimmed by 12 percent since April, and seven teams have instituted pay cuts or furloughs of workers outside the huddle since the owners' lockout of players began March 12, The Associated Press has found in interviews around the league.

Stories are popping up everywhere about employers who are refusing to hire workers who smoke, or are tacking on a premium penalty, or even offering a quitting incentive, hoping to reduce health care costs and increase productivity.