Gift cards continue to grow in popularity with employees as alternatives to cash, desk plaques, and company-branded apparel. Some of the reasons are pretty clear. The economy the last couple of years has made employees value everything that gives them additional spending power. But, rather than mere cash, which gets spent on life’s mere necessities, employees like the trophy-value of gift cards and the ability to keep that money separate from their “wallet money,” so that they might use it to buy something meaningful and memorable.
Xtraordinary Adventures is taking reservations on LYNX; one of the newest rocket propelled suborbital vehicles, with a few spots available on Doomsday, December 21st, 2012. Current plans call for first flights to begin in the morning after a successful series of flights earlier in 2011-12. The venue for the initial scheduled flights is the Air & Space Port in Mojave, California.
Ski lodges, a fireman’s pole, fairground horses. Sounds like a kid’s dream, but it could be your future office space.
ERISA section 404(a)(1)(a) REQUIRES that a fiduciary make sure the fees for a retirement plan be “reasonable.” Recent litigation has emphasized the importance of this fiduciary requirement with emphasis being added by the $16.5 million dollar settlement in the Caterpillar case from November 2009.