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Voluntary turnover overall has dropped 21% since 2008 to 7.3%, and voluntary turnover rates among high performers dropped from 5.7% in 2006 to 3.7% in 2009, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

If you’ve got your finger on the pulse of the latest in benefits conventional wisdom, news or analysis, I’d like to invite you to send me your bio and a writing sample to be considered for one of EBN’s open Contributing Editor slots.

Soon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a "monstrosity," and that he and his newly empowered Republican colleagues would seek to "replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health care in America."

Should Republicans gain a majority in the House and/or the Senate, the long-known opponents to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could "bar the Department of Health and Human Services from writing the necessary regulations to implement” health care reform, as well as "bar appropriations of the necessary funds," says one health care expert.

It’s November, which means three things: open enrollment, turkey dinners and long-term care. Today (Nov. 1) marks the beginning of Long-Term Care Awareness Month, a concentrated push to get employees thinking about how they plan to receive and fund care in their later years.

Employee Benefit News now is accepting speaker proposals for its 2011 Benefits Forum & Expo, to be held Sept. 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas. Get more information on how to get your session considered for next year’s program. Give us your A game, and we’ll give you a spot on the agenda in Big D.

Recent news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that by 2050 one in three Americans will have diabetes. As if that weren’t horrifying enough, nine out of 10 of the new cases will be linked to obesity.

Join me at the listening post for a special Daily Diversion podcast as Towers Watson senior consultant Alan Glickstein discusses the newest regulations regarding cash balance pension plans and what they rules mean for you.

You likely saw/heard/read the news reports coming from France, as infuriated workers burned cars and blocked streets in protest of a government to raise the nation’s retirement age from 60 to 62.

A recent blog post on the Mother Jones website put in the starkest terms I’ve ever seen the reality of the retirement crisis -- work indefinitely, live poor or die.