Cost-Containment

Many companies are now gearing up for open enrollment, and this is a good time to highlight their benefits offerings. Here are five short items that plan sponsors should have on their open enrollment checklist.

The Walgreen pharmacy chain will begin filling prescriptions from customers in the Express Scripts network again starting in September under a new multiyear contract that ends a costly impasse between the companies.

An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to "compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year," a union official union said Monday.

Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a sour assessment of the U.S. economy Tuesday and said the Federal Reserve is ready to take further action if growth doesn't pick up.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic version of Teva Women's Health's Plan B One-Step, an emergency contraceptive that is availble over-the-couter without a prescription for women age 17 and older.

Three weeks before the Democratic National Convention this summer, union leaders plan to hold their own "shadow convention" to promote labor issues they believe too many elected officials are ignoring.

Democrats want to push tax cuts through the Senate for companies that hire new workers, give raises or buy major new equipment this year.

Traditionally we think of the key assets of a business as the capital assets (such as the factory and equipment), or the operational assets (such as their inventory). But if youre any kind of firm where human capital is the key driver, the term key asset has a different meaning.