Cost-Containment

The CBO reports that a GOP-backed bill to redefine full-time work from 30 hours per week to 40 hours would increase the deficit by tens of billions of dollars.

A survey for HighRoads finds 50 percent of employers are in some stage of private exchange evaluation. But interest is also high in the self-insured model.

The president has suggested a 1 percent pay raise for the federal government's labor force.

A new study in Massachusetts is providing evidence that the reform law passed in that state in 2006, and which served as the model for the Affordable Care Act, is indeed making a significant dent in bankruptcy filings.

International Business Machines Corp. began dismissing U.S. workers today as part of a $1 billion restructuring.

Despite bearing more of the cost of their workplace benefits, employees still place a high value on them.