RT @PaulPage: Oil companies are putting more investment into alternative energy. The latest: France's Total to pay $2.5 billion f… https://t.co/46LpKvjgVI— 4 days 10 hours ago via@theofrancis
What will Biden mean for business? After pandemic response: climate-related infrastructure, higher corporate tax, t… https://t.co/c9JRtay6pP— 4 days 13 hours ago via@theofrancis
"What if we invade it?" The Wall Street Journal reviewed thousands of posts across social media to reconstruct how… https://t.co/q804Adw494— 5 days 9 hours ago via@theofrancis
After Jared & Ivanka said their Secret Service details couldn’t use any of their house’s 6 bathrooms, the agents tr… https://t.co/pal7IZmCkS— 1 week 1 day ago via@theofrancis
One of the biggest charitable gifts ever somehow got a little smaller... Kodak director George Karfunkel cuts the s… https://t.co/HcmMhP4kxq— 1 week 2 days ago via@theofrancis
Deprecated function: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in include_once() (line 20 of /usr/home/theofrancis/public_html/theofrancis/includes/file.phar.inc).
At a time when scores of companies are freezing pensions for their workers, some are quietly converting their pension plans into resources to finance their executives' retirement benefits and pay.
Henry Schacht, Lucent Technologies Inc.'s former chief executive and still a director, met with retirees in 10 states last fall to explain why Lucent was cutting their medical and life-insurance benefits.
The loud message comes from one company after another: Surging health-care costs for retired workers are creating a giant burden. So companies have been cutting health benefits for their retirees or requiring them to contribute more of the cost.
After her fiance died suddenly, Patricia Galvin left New York for San Francisco in 1996 and took a job as a tax lawyer for a large law firm. A few years later, she began confiding to a psychologist at Stanford Hospital &Clinics about her relationships with family, friends and co-workers.