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Aon Hewitt says the most common way employers are doing so include switching share classes to less costly alternatives (62 percent) and swapping out funds for lower-cost alternatives (50 percent).

It offers six suggested policy statements designed to lessen the burden on plan administrators as they seek to integrate the U.S. Supreme Courts Windsor decision into their plans.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Labor Department concluded that if Congress allows benefits, to expire 3.6 million people will lose access to the benefits by the end of 2014.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled 23,000 last week to 298,000, nearly a six-year low that shows companies are laying off fewer workers.

At a time when there's growing attention on economic disparities, labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats hope to build public support to raise the federal minimum wage.

The carriers will provide dependent health coverage to same-sex spouses beginning Jan. 1, even though the National Railway Labor Conference does not believe it is required by law or by existing collective bargaining agreements.