Benefits Manager

The executive committee of New York's second-largest public workers union on Monday supported a new tentative contract that could avoid 3,500 layoffs.

Regardless of the high jobless numbers, American manufacturers are having trouble filling as many as 600,000 skilled positions, a new survey from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute reveals.

Low-dollar rewards are a driving force in keeping employees motivated and feeling both appreciated and loyal to their employers, according to a new survey by Parago, a provider of consumer and corporate incentives.

Scientists advising the government say a Pap test is a good way to screen young and middle-aged women for cervical cancer, and it's only needed once every three years. But they say there is not enough evidence yet to back testing for HPV, the virus that causes the disease.

A new study supports getting mammograms every other year instead of annually.

A new government study finds a small fraction of those teens show signs of a troubling anxiety disorder that can be mistaken for extreme shyness.

I came in here today to vent about wellness programs and how most companies run these things like holiday parties: everybodys worried about the food.

State economists said growth in Florida's once-exploding Medicaid program is slowing and predicted Monday that Medicaid spending will increase by a relatively modest $1.3 billion, or 6.3 percent, in the next budget year.