CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Duke Energy todayannounced that Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services firm, hasbeen selected to provide comprehensive HR back-office administrative servicesto the company’s U.S. and Canadian employees and retirees.

Under the seven-and-a-half-year contract, effective July 1, Duke Energywill outsource to Hewitt its back-office administration and relatedinformation technology systems in the United States and Canada, includingpayroll, active employee and retiree health and insurance enrollment andstatus, retirement plan administration, staffing and training enrollment andstatus, work force event and salary administration, and performance managementadministration. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The contract will directly affect roughly 100 of Duke Energy’s 21,500employees, with most of the affected employees located at the Charlotteheadquarters site. Hewitt will offer employment to most of the Duke Energyemployees performing the work covered in the contract. Ultimately, all DukeEnergy’s U.S. and Canadian employees and benefit plan participants will seechanges in the manner in which they access some HR information and/or how theyperform certain HR-related functions.

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