Spending on prescription drugs by employers continues to rise sharply. At the same time, employer plans are requiring greater cost-sharing on the part of employee.

Most succession plans at major corporations are failures, at least according to the senior executives who closely examine such plans.

Medical identify theft increased by nearly 22 percent in 2014 compared to 2013, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute and the Medical Identity Theft Alliance.

As the Democratic party pushes hard for a federal paid sick leave policy, a study from the Society for Human Resource Management found that, among companies with 50-plus employees, only about half offer paid sick days to their fulltime workers.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced that it amended the Family and Medical Leave Act so that spouse now includes a same-sex partner.

According to a Gallup survey of more than 170,000 U.S. adults, some states reported stunning drops in the number of uninsured.

Enrollment for 2015 coverage began Nov. 15 and ended Feb. 15. Next time around, the administration plans to start sooner Nov. 1, 2015 and cut it off a bit sooner Jan. 31, 2016.

IBM research finds that todays young workers are pretty similar to their elders outlook on work when they were young.