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Should salaries be public? The issue won´t be moot, if a new Web site has its way.

Attention DB plan sponsors: Do your homework on hedge funds. The Government Accountability Office last week called on the Department of Labor to provide more uniform guidance on the quasi-asset class, now increasingly used to juice pension plan returns.

Two surveys out this week show HR/benefits managers have some PR work to do among employees at their companies.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a new guide for employers on applying Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In other ADA news, the Senate recently passed amendments to the law, designed to counter Supreme Court decisions that ruled that people with certain ailments were...

The latest issue of Health Affairs features an article that the key to reforming the nation´s health care system is not a red solution or blue solution, but rather a purple solution that blends the best components of Barack Obama´s and John McCain´s proposals. Read the full article here (as well...

Guess what? Poor working conditions are bound to adversely impact your mental state and health, shows new data in a report from the World Health Organization.

For hiring managers: Who needs costly background check products when there´s MySpace and Facebook? CareerBuilder finds that 22% of hiring managers use social networking sites to check up on potential employees, up from 11%; in 2006. For job hunters: Clean up your online presence; 34% of respondents...

Hoo, boy! From the "how-can-that-be?" files, new survey results from the Spectrem Group reveal that one in 10 plan sponsors (thankfully, a minority) believe they pay no fees for their retirement plan. If plans sponsors don´t know about these fees, how can they educate investors who need desperately...

The market is in turmoil with no end in sight, which no doubt is raising questions and anxiety among employees.

Determined to spur HSA adoption come hell or high water, the government has launched a site to educate small employers about the accounts and their merits. To learn more, visit www.hsa.gov.