Benefits Manager

TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and TD Ameritrade Inc.s affiliated investment advisor have launched a new product to help consumers generate supplemental income after they retire.

Congress' failed deficit-cutting supercommittee has faded away, but a stack of expensive economic problems facing lawmakers has not.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is overseeing an enforcement initiative that is concentrating on the gas station industry in New Jersey after it discovered extensive noncompliance problems with the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

According to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, 73 percent of employers do not provide training to employees who are responsible for social media duties.

Asset-based long-term care products have taken on heightened importance in light of the potential appeal of a federal law designed to provide long-term care coverage, according to a Midwestern-based insurer.

American Crystal Sugar Co. has begun advertising that it's seeking workers for its sugar factories, signaling a new phase in the company's lockout of its 1,300 union workers, which is in its fourth month.

Unemployment rates fell in three-quarters of U.S. states last month, a sign that many parts of the country are experiencing modest job gains.

The failure of a special deficit-reduction supercommittee sets up a year-end battle between President Barack Obama and a dysfunctional Congress over renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for millions.