Benefits Manager

The National Labor Relations Board proposed sweeping new rules Tuesday to allow unions to hold workplace elections much more quickly, winning praise from Democrats and labor leaders who called it a long overdue fix to a broken system riddled with roadblocks and delays to union organizing.

The union representing Boeing Co. workers in Washington state has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The economy has made consumers more cautious about health care spending and forced some to reduce it considerably, according to a Deloitte Center for Health Solutions survey.

The Kansas governor appointed five people to a new commission that will study whether Kansas should move toward a 401(k)-style pension plan for new teachers and government workers.

The move to stabilize New Jersey's underfunded pension and health care systems by requiring public workers to pay sharply more for the benefits while suspending bargaining over health care was fast-tracked through the Legislature Monday, after Democrats joined with Republicans to buck the powerful public employee unions.

Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer.

Joe DeLamielleure was one of a collection of NFL Hall of Famers and players who held a press conference Monday backing a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, demanding better benefits for former players.

Three employees who say they fear losing their jobs at Boeing Co.'s North Charleston plant were allowed on Monday to have limited roles in a federal labor dispute over the company's 787 passenger jet line.