Minnesota Man Indicted for Embezzling Funds From an Employee Benefit Plan

Delroy Joseph Sand, Jr., of New Prague, Minnesota, was indicted for embezzling approximately $642,166 from his company’s employee benefit plan. Full Story Available at:Minnesota Man Indicted for Embezzling Funds from an Employee Benefit Plan Net News...

Suit Filed Against Coke After Striking Employees Lose Their Health Care

Attorneys representing 500 striking employees at Coke have filed a class action lawsuit against the Company for possible violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) after Coke canceled the employees’ health care. Five plaintiffs...

Europeans Take One Billion Man Hours of ‘sickies’ Each Year

Across Europe, more than 120 million sick days a year are actually taken for personal reasons rather than for an illness according to Aon Consulting, the employee risk and benefits management firm. More than one in ten people (15%) say the last time they...

More Help with Housing Costs for Low Income Working Families

More than 200,000 U.K. working families will gain about £1000 a year, thanks to new rules around Housing and Council Tax Benefits, making them an average of £20 a week better off. From Monday, income from Child Benefit will no longer be taken into account...

An Extended ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Scrappage Scheme Goes Live in the U.K.

From today (October 22) the new terms of the British Government’s scrappage scheme come into force providing an extra boost to the car industry and consumers. In September it was announced that an extra £100 million was proposed for the Government’s...