Employee 401(k) accounts grew nearly 8 percent last quarter as a surging stock market boosted investment returns and worker contributions increased.

Judge Susan Richard Nelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota is requiring that Hawkins Tree and Landscaping Inc., a Shakopee, Minn., company, and its owners, Michael Hawkins and Dawn Hawkins, pay back wages as well as liquidated damages totaling to $478,000 to 57 current and former...

The university has volunteered to up its payments to help offset problems in Providence, where the city has also frozen its pensioners' cost-of-living increases.

The California state legislature is moving forward on a collection of health insurance reform bills, some specially tailored to conform to sections of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).