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• Crain Communications Cuts 50 Editorial Posts

  Content Next - 2008-12-12

  Business-to-business publisher Crain Communications has laid off 50 editorial staffers spread across several of its magazines, sources said. The cuts were made fairly lightly at most of the individual mags, including AdAge, which lost three staffers mostly in production and art; Crains NY Business down one copy editor; and...

  Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Media, Magazines, David Kaplan

• Setting Sites on Retirees

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  Several retiree employment Web sites are playing matchmaker to companies and retirees. Employers are increasingly seeking to use the abilities and knowledge of retired professionals. At the same time, good health, and longer lives and, in some cases, financial concerns are prompting highly skilled retired professionals to return to the...

  Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance

• 2 Faces of AARP

  BNET - 2006-01-16

  Once, AARP mostly flew below corporate radar. That's when it was the American Association for Retired Persons, and so, by definition, it had nothing to do with anyone's employees. Now, however, AARP has banished "Retired" from its name, going simply by its former acronym. It is perhaps best known as...

  Tags: AARP, Crain Communications Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Social Security, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Government, Finance

• Firms Replacing Stock Options With Restricted Shares Face a Tough Sell to Employees

  BNET - 2005-09-01

  David Ayre approaches employee communications like a marketer approaches an advertising campaign. Pepsi, like many companies, realized it eventually would be required to expense stock options and got to work on developing a new compensation program. This paper describes how getting information out early - even before all of the...

  Tags: Stock Option, Compensation, Stock, Crain Communications Inc., Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance

• Opinions Mixed on the Future of Cash-Balance Plans

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  Cash-balance plans, a cross between defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans, were once viewed as an answer for employers who wanted to limit their financial liability and provide a more portable solution to employees. Thirty-three percent of the Fortune 100 companies offered a cash-balance plan in 2002, up from 1 percent in...

  Tags: Financial, Crain Communications Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance

• JPMorgan Stock Option Plan Throws a Lifeline to Employees When Shares Are Underwater

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  JPMorgan's program allows workers to get value out of worthless options and could benefit companies facing new rules on expense reporting. Some companies are beginning to doubt the value of stock options as a compensation tool, and it's easy to see why. There has been a spate of lawsuits involving...

  Tags: Stock Option, Stock, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Crain Communications Inc., Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance

• In Just A Year, Cash-Balance Plans Go From Panacea To Pariah

  BNET - 2004-06-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Not long ago, companies considered cash-balance pension plans ideal for limiting financial liability and providing a more portable retirement program to today's mobile workforce. The plans, a cross between a traditional defined-benefit plan and a defined-contribution plan, have been adopted by hundreds of major U.S. corporations...

  Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Panacea, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Workforce Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance

• In Enron's Wake, Time For A Review Of Nonqualified Plans

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  From the executive summary: ‘According to experts, it is prudent for companies to take a fresh look at their nonqualified plans, with an eye to simplifying them and eliminating any anomalies--such as an unusually complex or lucrative custom plan created in the past for a specific executive--that might turn into...

  Tags: Enron Corp., Crain Communications Inc., Financial Accounting, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources

• Despite a Weak Economy, Stay Bonuses are More Popular Than Ever

  BNET - 2003-10-01

  The article defines about the stay bonuses, its uses & states that if they are not used in right way they can pay off in low morale and additional turnover. Stay bonuses are used not only at companies that are downsizing or merging but also at high-growth companies that want...

  Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Turnover, Morale, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

• The $300 Billion Pension Funding Shortfall

  BNET - 2003-09-01

  In last few years, there has been a controversial change to federal pension regulations, but critics say they might leave plans even more dangerously short of money. The situation is ominous. A shortfall threatens to wreak havoc with corporate balance sheets and dangerously strain the federal government insurer that backs...

  Tags: Mutual Fund, Crain Communications Inc., Pension, Shortfall, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Balance Sheets, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance