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The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.9 percent, but for a good reason: More people were actively seeking work, a prerequisite for being counted as part of the labor force.

A federal judge said he will preside over only one of two court cases involving the DOJ's suits against the Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers, but he was amenable to 'a faster schedule' than what the DOJ proposed.

Cigna has begun pulling away from Anthem, the health insurer poised to acquire it, but that is the least of Anthem's problems following the Labor Department's announcement to block the pending merger.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the freelance movement is both the product and cause of wage stagnation, but he has some ideas on what might end income inequality.

New research from Willis Towers Watson says many employers are looking to captive insurance in order to mitigate costs and analyze claim data.

In light of the DOLs recent hardline stance on the subject of plan sponsor obligations under ERISA (GAP Stores and others have recently been sued in breach of fiduciary lawsuits), I believe that the new safe haven transparency standard for plan sponsors must be fiduciary-level transparency.