Profit sharing today: plans and provisions. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey)

Monthly Labor Review | April 1, 1991| | Copyright

A BLS survey shows that profit-sharing plans today possess a variety of features; rules for determining employer contributions, allocations among employees, and employees' access to funds differ widely among plans

Touted by some observers as tools for increasing the productivity of workers or for increasing the flexibility of labor markets, profit-sharing plans have attracted much attention in recent years. Other observers have questioned the benefits of these plans, arguing that they expose employees to risk by shifting a portion of the compensation package from ...

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