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News You Can Use: BLS releases benefits stats

August 14, 2008, 9:00 a.m. EDT 1 Min Read

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released numbers on employee benefits for March 2008. Among the bullet points, 61% of private industry employees had access to paid retirement benefits, compared with 89% of state and local government employees, and 71% of private industry workers had medical benefits, versus 87% of government workers.

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