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January 10, 2003 - 7,947 subscribers
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Health Insurance Costs Fire Up Unions
Excerpt: "Rapidly rising health care costs are causing strife at bargaining tables nationwide as employers seek to shift some of the burden to workers while unions battle to save benefits." (USA Today)
Opinion: Marcus Welby Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Excerpt: "For Americans, consuming medicine and health has become a major pastime.... We live amid an unimaginable cornucopia of medical opportunities, but our relationship to the medical industry hasn't changed in its essential features since Otto von Bismarck mandated health insurance for Germans in the 19th century.... Simple insurance paid simple bills because medicine, most of the time, wasn't complicated. The system worked." (OpinionJournal.com)
Links to Items on Executive Comp, Benefits in General
Labor Department Releases 2002 Form 5500s
Excerpt: "The Form 5500 and Form 5500-EZ for plan year 2002 are essentially unchanged from 2001. Certain modifications have been made to reflect changes in the law or regulations, to improve forms processing and to clarify the instructions. Modifications include, among other things: ..." (U.S. Department of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration)
Online Benefits Offer Sound Advice
Excerpt: "The payback for online benefits is obvious: It can significantly reduce the cost of running a human resource department by allowing employees to manage their benefits from the convenience of their desktop." (Internet World)
House Workforce Committee Republicans Preview 2003 Benefits Agenda
Press release. Excerpt: "Republicans on the House Education & the Workforce Committee today highlighted a number of key workforce priorities that the committee is expected to focus on early in 2003.... [Committee Chairman John Boehner (R-OH)] and Employer-Employee Relations Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) plan to reintroduce the Pension Security Act later in January." (Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives)
Stock Options Profits Benefited High-Tech Workers, Study Shows
Excerpt: "The high-tech industry's generosity with stock options in the 1990s enabled rank-and-file workers at the 100 largest Internet-based companies to cash in an average of $425,000 each in stock-option profits, according to new research." (The [San Jose] Mercury News via NewsAlert.com)
Newly Posted or Renewed Job Openings
Pension Administrator (JO#336)
for a third party administration firm
in IA
Project Manager
for Pyramid Digital Solutions
in AL
Employees Benefits Customer Service Representative
for Independent Insurance Agency
in CA
Consultant - OmniPlus - Plan Administrator / Business Analyst
for MK Consulting, Inc.
in ALL STATES
Newly Posted Webcasts
(Post Yours!)
Exploring the Options: New Ideas for Increasing Health Coverage
on January 8, 2003
presented by KaiserNetwork.org
Implications of Proposed Age Discrimination Regulations for Retirement Plans
on January 14, 2003
presented by Watson Wyatt
Newly Posted Conferences
(Post Yours!)
Fifth Annual Conference, Retirement Research Consortium
in DC
May 15, 2003
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Managing Through Turbulent Times: The Market and Your Plan
in ALL STATES
February 4, 2003
National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators, Inc. (NAGDCA)
Newly Posted Press Releases
(Post Yours!)
FlexPlus/Windows from DATAIR
(DATAIR Employee Benefit Systems, Inc.)
Findley Davies Announces New Principals
(Findley Davies, Inc.)
Labor Department Releases 2002 Form 5500s
(U.S. Department of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration)
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