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A round-up of the week's employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

A new survey suggests employers are looking to employees to help cut rising health care costs, some offering incentives to encourage healthier behavior, or in an opposite defense, implementing penalties if goals are not met.

South Carolina workers will have their maximum unemployment benefits slashed from 26 weeks to 20 under a measure headed to Gov. Nikki Haley's desk.

A month before a potential lockout, there was some reason for optimism about the NBA's labor situation.

Top House Republicans pressed President Barack Obama Wednesday for a detailed plan on budget cuts, and one leading lawmaker accused him of distorting a GOP Medicare proposal at the center of the partisan divide over spending.

A new study says a single parent in Michigan with a preschooler and school-age child needs to earn more than three times the state's minimum wage to be economically secure.