Cost-Containment

The amount of money health plans dispensed to pay for medical and hospital benefits finally slowed.

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.

Most pension plans will see their funded status drop significantly in 2011, with plan sponsors facing sharply higher contributions, according to an analysis by Mercer actuaries.

A new contract between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers union will raise the automaker's labor costs by less than 1 percent a year, reaching a company goal of holding the costs steady, executives said Thursday.

The executive committee of New York's second-largest public workers union on Monday supported a new tentative contract that could avoid 3,500 layoffs.

I came in here today to vent about wellness programs and how most companies run these things like holiday parties: everybodys worried about the food.

In the middle of America's heartland, a small public school, Northeast Elementary Magnet School, has taken on a hefty task reversing obesity.

The gap between wages at the top and bottom ends of the income scale in Virginia has reached a 30-year high, according to a new study released Tuesday.