Benefits Manager

President Barack Obama's doctor says the president is in "excellent health" and is "tobacco free."

Employee perception of and appreciation for their benefits is a more important reality than ever in these less-than-stable times.

People are your company's most important asset. Try some ideas to inspire them.

Moving to give the private sector a greater say in Iowa's economic development strategy, Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday announced the business leaders he has appointed to a new panel that will oversee efforts to attract new employers and expand existing businesses.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said Sunday that an Internet ad featuring his campaign manager smoking conveyed a message about letting "people be people" and was not intended to suggest that smoking is cool.

Twenty percent of employees report to younger supervisors, which reveals a predominant generation trend in the workplace, according to a survey by Pitney Bowers Inc.

In 10 months in office, Gov. Lincoln Chafee has managed to anger an impressive assortment of constituencies: business leaders and organized labor, medical marijuana advocates and critics of illegal immigration.

About 70 percent of employers supplement their qualified plans with additional employer-funded, non-qualified retirement benefits for their senior executives, and these supplemental plans providing an annual contribution are marginally more common than those focusing on a specified retirement benefit, according to a new benefits survey by Integrated Healthcare Strategies.