1.   Businesses would lose a whole raft of deductions, including those for employee benefits such as health care.

2.   Union leaders attacked management for eliminating employee health benefits.

3.   And a few employers are starting to help, making eldercare services the fastest-growing employee benefit among corporate workers.

4.   And a company can ill afford generous employee benefits or community donations if it is financially strapped.

5.   Ann Combs, consultant on employee benefits at William M. Mercer Inc. and former deputy assistant secretary of labor.

6.   At the Times Co., Schneider will be responsible for all human resources functions, including employee benefits and compensation, management development and organizational structure.

7.   Blue Cross and Harvard do not currently offer life insurance or other employee benefits services.

8.   Besides claiming discrimination, the wrestlers, who were contract workers, say they were improperly denied full-time employee benefits such as vacation and sick time.

9.   - Similarly, more retired or downsized workers will return to their former companies as contract consultants, doing essentially what they did before but without the employee benefits.

10.   Advice about asset allocation, retirement plans and other employee benefits is available from a Web-based software program called Help Yourself!