The new approach would allow plan sponsors to pay their premium just once a year, 9 months after the start of a plan year.

Among employees under age 30, only slightly more than half participated in their employers health benefits program, ADP finds.

According to MetLifes 11th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends, uncertainty around health care reform is not only affecting human resource departments, its also having a direct impact on employees.

Lawyers jammed a courtroom Wednesday for the first hearing in Detroit's bankruptcy case, as a judge set out to decide whether anxious city retirees can slow down the process with lawsuits in other courts.