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Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry. The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyterian minister in Virginia when the economic downturn forced her church to let her go in 2007. After that, she found only temporary work.

The business woes of Chesapeake Energy Corp are hitting shareholders hard, including its employees.

Allstate Benefits and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America announced an agreement on Tuesday to provide a PPO dental product. Allstate Benefits expects to begin offering DentalGuard, Guardian’s group PPO dental plan, to employers starting in July.

There’s no question that driving is getting safer. Collision avoidance and other safety features in automobiles are becoming more sophisticated and ubiquitous, having worked their way down from high-end luxury vehicles to family sedans and subcompacts. Now automated traffic law enforcement and telematics could further reduce fatalities and insured losses, and the promise of Google’s self-driving car could remove driver error as the primary cause of collisions and injuries.

Financial firms can ‘outsource’ almost any operation, from reporting to trade processing to customer support, to the computing cloud, anywhere in the world.

Half of Americans say they aren’t contributing to a retirement plan, but more specifically 56% of Americans ages 18-34 are more likely to be among those not saving, according to a recent LIMRA survey.

While most retirement plan participants find guaranteed income appealing, the farther the horizon to retirement, the greater the attraction, a new study from The Hartford shows.

A YouTube video shows 25 things the video’s creator has learned from HR. What has the HR/benefits profession taught you that you would add to this list?

The number of women in senior technology positions at U.S. companies is down for the second year in a row, according to a recent survey.

During the Great Recession, many companies not only halted hiring, but relocating employees.