US - Equifax has announced it is to freeze its defined benefit (DB) scheme as of 1 January 2009, in a move that will affect over half of its US workforce.
Under the terms of the pension reforms, some 4000 employees will be switched to a 401(k) plan, although employees due to retire before the beginning of 2009 would remain unaffected by the change. ...
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