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- Excerpt: "Today, workers tell the pollsters they assume change and assume they will need to provide for themselves. The result is heightened worker demand for 401(k) plans, not pensions. Young worker interest in the portability of a health-savings account, even if it may mean a less generous basic health benefit, shows up in the sign-up patterns among employers offering this benefit design as one option." (Human Resource Executive Online; |
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- Excerpt: "In applying ERISA, courts have a nasty predilection for unhinging agreements outside the statutory scheme. Supervalu, Inc. provides an interesting example in the context of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 ('MPPAA'), 29 U.S. |
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- 5 pages. Revised August 31, 2007. Excerpt: "[M]uch of the guidance lacks interpretation, such as not providing more clarity on when companies may omit disclosure of specific performance targets, and merely recites the seemingly obvious requirements of the new disclosure rules. The interpretative guidance is briefly summarized [in the target page] with the August 8 guidance presented in italics. |
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- Excerpt: "The idea is to charge consumers as much as $15,000 a year for better service than they can get through a conventional medical practice. . . . |
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- Excerpt: "The Financial Accounting Standards Board has embarked on a project that might plunk employers down squarely into such events as the subprime mess in an unexpected way: by requiring them to report in their balance-sheet footnotes how much of their pension assets are tied up in hedge funds, derivatives, and other 'alternative investments.'" (CFO.com) |
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- Excerpt: "In a private ruling, the IRS declined to waive the 60-day rollover requirement with respect to distributions from an individual retirement account (IRA) where the taxpayer failed to submit medical documentation substantiating the claim that his failure to make the rollover was due to medical impairment." (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business) |
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- 2 pages. Excerpt: "The proposed regulations highlight the need for sponsors of calendar year plans to consider making additional contributions by September 15, 2007 to avoid possible restrictions on benefit payments in 2008, as well as for 2008 funding purposes." (Buck Consultants) |
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- Excerpt: "The world's largest 300 pension funds grew 11.5% last year, with assets topping $10 trillion for the first time while keeping pace with the 2005 growth, according to an annual survey conducted by Pensions & Investments and Watson Wyatt Worldwide." (Pensions & Investments) |
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- Excerpt: "Over the next two years, [the new manager] tore up Microsoft's HR playbook. In the process, she has begun to sculpt a new HR that is junking a one-size-fits-all approach for a system tailored to the needs of individual employees. In Brummel's HR, her people are supposed to act less like cops and more like concierges." (BusinessWeek) |
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- Excerpt: "Pension consultants and third-party administrators want bundled providers, including industry giants such as Vanguard and Fidelity, to disclose their revenue-sharing arrangements with affiliated service providers, but the bundled providers are balking." (Investment News; free registration required) |
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- Excerpt: "Under the final regulations, it will still be possible to terminate a deferred compensation plan without causing a bad tax result for participants, but only if certain requirements are satisfied." (The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Inc.) |
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- Excerpt: "Proponents are hoping new legislation that would extend federal and commercial plans' coverage of immunosuppressant drugs for kidney transplant patients may finally become reality." (SPECIALTY PHARMACY NEWS via AISHealth.com) |
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- Excerpt: "The United Auto Workers union appears to be simultaneously crafting new labor contracts with each of the three Detroit automakers, a break from traditional tactics but one motivated by a desire to keep the financially strapped American companies alive." (The Washington Post; free registration required) |
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- Excerpt: "Autoworkers are worried that the plan, which would shift the responsibility for retiree health care costs to the UAW, is risky and could leave thousands of retirees under- or uninsured if the plan goes broke, which has happened at two other companies that tried similar deals." (USA TODAY) |
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- Excerpt: "The Pittsburgh Business Group on Health proves that employers banding together, especially as a purchasing bloc, can make a difference. In 2006, the employer-led coalition's prescription drug program yield only a 3.7% increase in spending, compared to the national average of 14%." (Employee Benefit News; |
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- Page 2 of 4. Excerpt: "Just before Congress left town for its August recess, the House of Representatives adopted two divestment bills: H.R. |
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- Excerpt: "In the decision, involving a putative class action against Boston Scientific, the judge surveyed case law from other jurisdictions on the issue and broke from the opinion of another judge of the circuit, who had found that such a participant, once cashed out, lacked standing to bring a claim for benefits. Judge Tauro reviewed case law from other circuits to the contrary, and elected to follow those rulings." (Boston ERISA Law Blog) |
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- ANOTHER (RELATIVELY) POSITIVE PIECE ON IRAQ, in The New York Times.... |
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- ANOTHER (RELATIVELY) POSITIVE PIECE ON IRAQ, in The New York Times.... |
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- Scriptlandia is the effort to build scripting command line environment on top of JVM. The user don't have to worry how to install or configure libraries for different scripting languages. |
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- Thanks Volker! We still haven't wiped the smile off our faces. :-) |
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- CircuitCity.com offers the Sony 8GB Micro Vault Classic USB 2.0 Flash Drive, model no. USM8GJ, for $79.99 with free shipping. |
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- Even though it’s September, the summer music festival season is still going strong. If you don’t’ |
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- Min ven har en: Motorola Razr V3X mobiltelefon, men kan ikke overføre billeder til sin PC. Leverandøren, som er hjemmehørende i Skive har ikke, trods gentagne henvendelser fundet det nødvendigt at levere en dansk manual, endsige svare på henvendelser. Er der nogen der tilfældigvis kan give anvisning på, hvordan man overfører billeder. duuki |
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- AstraZeneca Plc is not planning any major changes to its investments in India after a recent court ruling backed a law viewed as weakening patent protections, Chief Executive David Brennan said on Tuesday. |
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- Well, its been some time since I ve added any updates my bad! To catch up I m glad to share some of my Nokia N95 tales, tips, and otherwise interesting discoveries.. enjoy!Rumors of the 8GB Nokia N95 are not exagerated. I have to admit, info a... |
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- LiveContacts localizer now supports nokia N95 - plots mobile locations on Google maps The LiveContacts localizer (friend finder app) is now supporting Nokia N95 and other S60 3rd edition devices. The application plots positions from people in Google ... |
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- LaptopTraveller.com knocks 10% off select PDA batteries via coupon code "PDABT10". Compatible models are available for brands such as Palm, Dell, HP, Compaq, and more. Shipping starts around $7 and a one-year warranty applies. Deal ends September 7. |
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- EL AIRE QUE RESPIRAMOS POR FRANCISCO ARIAS SOLIS |
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- ok more on the geotagging photos sent to flickr via shozu and my Nokia N95 GPS-enabled smartphone. I ve recently been doing some research to figure out exactly how to geotag my photos, and get them up on flickr then view on a map. From the outsi... |
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- Bayer Schering Pharma, the drug business of Germany's Bayer AG, expects its revenues in Asia to rise by around 17 percent to more than 1.9 billion euros. |
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- I have subscribed Tata Indicom LAN cable broadband at Mumbai, I cannot able to connect it with RHEL or CentOS I'm using. Any Linux users aware of this please tell me all the detailed steps to follow... |
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