Benefits Manager

For many employees, trying to understand their benefits plans can be a confusing and frustrating process. Between traditional health plans, wellness programs, consumer-driven health care and retirement just to name a few there are so many options to consider, and employees need the proper education to make the...

U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in February to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recession ended. The unemployment rate was unchanged, largely because more people streamed into the work force.

Business executives are becoming more confident about the U.S. economy as well as their own organizations, according to the first quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which surveyed chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in executive and senior management accounting roles.

When comparing March 2012 to March 2011, service-sector hiring is expected to fall by a net of 10.3 points while manufacturing-sector hiring is projected to rise by a net of 4.8 points, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management that surveyed 500 service-sector companies and...

Payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing Inc. said Thursday that it will buy a division of SHPS Inc., an employee benefits administration company.

The U.S. economy has been outrunning everyone's expectations.

Business tax cuts, tax incentives for hiring the unemployed, a moratorium on new taxes and a state spending cap will be part of the budget proposal of the New York Senate's Republican majority.

The Republican-led Michigan Legislature narrowly approved a measure Wednesday that would prohibit public schools from automatically deducting union dues from the paychecks of teachers and other employees, a move that unions consider another attack on collective bargaining rights.