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Labor unions are celebrating one of their biggest victories in decades after turning back an Ohio law that curbed collective bargaining rights for the state's public workers. The vote showed unions are still a potent political force that can't be ignored.

More than a thousand public-sector workers and retirees rallied Tuesday at the Rhode Island Statehouse in opposition to a proposed overhaul of the state's vastly underfunded pension system.

The IRS and the Department of Treasury are requesting comments on possible standards for determining if a retirement plan is a governmental plan under section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index, which tracks 100 of the nations largest defined benefit pension plans, released a report showing that these plans experienced a $42 billion improvement in funded status in October. The improvement came on the heels of the second-worst financial quarter on record, in which the...

Rhode Island lawmakers are mulling changes big and small to a public pension overhaul proposal after hearing from hundreds of Rhode Islanders during 30 hours of hearings on the legislation.

Pensions improve the quality of Californias public education system and reduce turnover costs, according to a report issued by the National Institute on Retirement Security.

Rhode Island is ground zero for pension reform right now. The state, which has found itself with an unfunded pension liability of between $7 billion and $9 billion, has proposed a hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution plan to reform its retirement system.

How employers are confronting costly employee stresses.