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Earlier this afternoon, I posted live Twitter updates on President Obama's first -ever online web-hall meeting. Taking a variety of questions from Internet viewers and a live White House audience, the president addressed several queries on health care.

Nearly half of U.S. workers foresee a future in which employers will not offer workplace benefits, such as health insurance and retirement savings plans, according to a survey by Fidelity Investments´consulting services group reported on BenefitNews.com.

In this month's EBN, Integrated Benefits Institute President Thomas Parry details the organization's findings after surveying more than 500 employers to document their use of incentives and disincentives to encourage health and productivity for their combined 5 million employees.

Remember the days when employees sat down with their HR/benefits representative to decide which of the available investment funds you wanted to include in your 401(k) retirement portfolio?

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) last week unveiled a plan to prop up the nation's struggling defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plan systems, and offer help to Americans in boosting retirement savings.

Designed to build upon FMLA, four Democratic Reps. Pete Stark (Calif.), George Miller (Calif.), Lynn Woolsey (Calif.) and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) last week introduced the Family Leave Insurance Act of 2009, which would provide 12 weeks of paid benefits to workers who need to take time off to care for an...

Clearly, no employer wants to layoff valued, hardworking staff, but the recession has left many companies with little choice. However, I hear that some employers are doing their best to take the sting out of such action by offering outplacement services.

I got another one for you to take to your legal eagles. According to a blog alert from Winston & Strawn, the Treasury Department will participate in a Public-Private Investment Program to buy up "legacy securities" (a much kinder, gentler term for "toxic assets").

According to a recent poll on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com, 49% of HR pros said FMLA is the law that gives them the biggest headache.

President Obama in February signed the Children´s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIP), extending the federal program to provide health insurance to low-income children and carrying new implications for group health plans, which by the by, become effective tomorrow, April 1.