"The design of benefits plans is just not an issue in negotiation now."

Still these benefits plans are being promoted to other city officials across the country.

The benefits plan was intended to let employees keep the larger of the two salaries.

In retirement, he worked with a Chicago publisher on employment benefits plans.

He said the benefits plan represented a significant improvement for the unpaid staff members.

The new fee generally does not apply to assets in employee benefits plans.

About 200 companies pay Fidelity for its broader business administering benefits plans.

The report also said the district's health benefits plan had been mismanaged and its purchasing process poorly coordinated.

Even companies with few part-time employees, and across-the-board benefits plans, are not escaping trouble-free.

A heavily negotiated pay and benefits plan was agreed to by union representatives in June but has not been approved by the union's members.

Value Health has two main businesses: providing employers with mental health programs and managing their prescription drug benefits plans.

They also argue that because service members paid into the Survivors Benefits Plan, its benefits should not be reduced.

The bill would also open the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan to many otherwise uninsured people.

This greatly simplifies the process of setting up ESOP benefits plans.

Recognizing this, some employers now offer flexible work time, unpaid caregiver leave and dependent-care spending accounts under flexible benefits plans.

A 1972 law created the Survivor Benefits Plan, a Department of Defense retirement income fund similar to a life insurance policy.

In the last two years, Congress has passed several bills to ease restrictions in the Survivor Benefits Plan.

She added, "In fairness to all of our members who access care according to their benefits plans, we could not waive the contractual limits for physical therapy."

In court papers, some of these people have stated that the benefits plans were a sham controlled by Mr. Kenemore largely for his own gain.

In fact, his policy was one of many offered to federal employees through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan.

Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan.

G.M. also would contribute $7 billion of its Hughes stake to the G.M. pension and benefits plans.

The first proposal of the Advisory Council - the Maintenance of Benefits Plan - fails the first three tests.

But even if employees make it through the payroll paring, they have another worry: if their benefits plans aren't protected by a union, they are in high jeopardy.

We recommend for immediate actionthe common-sense changes advocated by the six Advisory Council members backing the Maintenance of Benefits Plan.