Employer Strategies

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

Defined contribution plan participants have proved woefully uninformed about their funds, and clearer jargon and presentations could help.

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

The majority of baby boomers and Gen Xers appear to be looking at their retirement years through rose-colored glasses. More than three in four feel confident they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, even though nearly 40% of baby boomers and about two-thirds of Gen Xers have less than $100,000 in retirement savings. Moreover, a worrisome percentage —21.7% of baby boomers and 27.8% of Gen Xers — has no retirement savings at all. The grim statistics are the highlights of a report released by the Insured Retirement Institute.

Even as market uncertainty persists, employees using Bank of America Merrill Lynch's automatic 401(k) savings plans are showing they want to stay the course when it comes to positive savings behavior, according to the firm's latest quarterly data.

The Republican National Convention adopted a 2012 party platform that advocates changing how U.S. senior citizens receive health care by shifting Medicare from a defined-benefit entitlement to a defined-contribution plan.

By happy coincidence, a 30-minute lunch break is exactly as long as the minimum amount of time government guidelines recommend adults spend on physical activity.

Lifetime solutions should be coming soon as more annuities find their way into defined contribution plans, often via target date funds.

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.