Benefits Manager

Despite earlier findings that employees were renewing their focus on long-term planning issues like retirement, new research from Financial Finesse found that its not enough.

A half-century-old program that helps workers who lose their jobs to foreign trade holds the key to whether Congress may finally approve three long-delayed free trade agreements viewed by both the Obama White House and congressional Republicans as a way to invigorate the economy and create jobs.

When employers hire a new worker, the cost to bring them on board can be expensive. Although the employee sees his paycheck as the net result of his daily efforts, there are more costs associated to hiring than what meets the eye.

It's not just millionaires who'd pay more under President Barack Obama's latest plan to cut the deficit.

What weve got here is failure to communicate" Its more than just a legendary line from a classic Paul Newman film. It seems to still be a (sad) way of life at employers across the country. And its costing employees dearly in terms of both time and money.

For 2011, all 401(k) plans can allow catch-up contributions of how much for employees age 50 and over?

The U.S. Department of Labor today is awarding a $1.68 million National Emergency Grant to help Vermonts cleanup and recovery efforts from Tropical Storm Irene.

Rhode Island is the nation's smallest state. But its pension problem may well be the largest in the land.