Editorial Staff

Health assistance provider CareCounsel has been purchased by Stanford Hospital & Clinics, which says leadership and core directive will not be changing.

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association claims that consumers and the health care industry have saved more than $1 trillion in the past 10 years through the use of non-name-brand meds.

Only 7% of private company CFOs say they share financial updates with their full staff, even though doing so can reduce misinformation and increase team mentality, new research indicates.

An American Psychological Association survey says that, despite the shaky economic recovery, a lack of better jobs is not one of the major factors leading to workers sticking with their current employers.

Auto-enrollment, auto-increase and professional advice features are all up among 401(k) plans, according to a new data analysis from Charles Schwab.

CareerBuilder says more employees are reporting being bullied and claim that HR is doing nothing about it.

While most workers are not as financially sound as they should be, more are being proactive with their retirement and investment plans.

A new survey shows that, despite rising costs, more companies plan to keep health care on the menu for active employees.

Risk is rising and asset return dropping for corporate benefit pension plans, according to new research by Mercer.

Businesses whose employees work in Seattle have only days remaining before new paid sick and safe time rules kick in.

For the second consecutive year, U.S. bonuses will not be fully funded, but pay increases are predicted for 2013, according to a pair of Towers Watson surveys.

New retirement toolbox seeks to balance 401(k) plan funding with participants’ life needs.

Pursuit of higher efficiency pushes shift in human resources to shared services and outsourcing, according to Towers Watson.

Principal Financial’s annual evaluation of top companies in employee fiscal soundness has found a common link in wellness initiatives.

Americans express greater concern over the loss of employer-sponsored benefits than about being laid off in a new Gallup poll.

A new Harris Interactive poll of more than 2,000 working Americans suggests that bad behaviors occur on business trips, including excessive drinking and extramarital affairs.

Financial literacy is so critically important to working Americans that it can make them more productive and less vulnerable to major economic uncertainty, according to a new survey, but only about half of employers said they provide basic workplace financial education.

Ask a roomful of HR leaders to name their biggest stressors and some interesting answers float up – sometimes literally. A new social experiment by Impact Group suggests that, as the economy recovers, these practitioners are engaging in some big-picture thinking, and their worries may only be ballooning.

Immediately after the Supreme Court's health reform decision brokers shared their reaction with EBA. View the full slideshow at eba.benefitnews.com/slide_show.

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