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We have an employee who is nearing the end of her 12 weeks of FMLA. The employee is by definition a key employee. At the time she went on leave, the workplace wasn’t experiencing any changes or growth or the need to replace the position. Therefore, we did not communicate to her that there was […]
By Troy D. Thompson, JD, Axley Brynelson, LLP
By Bruce Roffé Businesses sponsoring self-insured health plans are desperately seeking ways to reduce health care costs, and it’s no secret prescription drugs make up a significant chunk of those costs. If you look more closely, specialty drugs emerge as a main culprit. These high-cost meds made up less than one percent of all written […]
We would like to have 3 different payroll deductions for employee benefits—for employees who work under 30 hours per week, 30-39 hours per week, and 40 or more hours per week. What are the surrounding legal issues?
It’s an unfortunate truth that engagement is suffering at many businesses, and it isn’t always easy to enliven it. To help bring life back to engagement at your company, we present an article by Ruth Ross, author of Coming Alive: The Journey to Reengage Your Life and Career.
All recruiting has changed dramatically, but the specialized area of college recruiting—so important to building pipelines of talent for the future—has probably changed the most.
By Ruth Berkowitz, VP at Liazon Corporation
Millennial employees—18 to 34 years old—selected high deductible healthcare plans more than any other age group. However, while approximately 44% of employees in this group chose HDHPs, a much smaller number of these employees took full advantage of health savings accounts (HSAs), according to Benefitfocus inaugural “State of Employee Benefits 2016” report.
Do you routinely use Twitter as part of your recruiting program? Do you get quality candidates from such efforts? Today we’ll explore how to make the most of using Twitter for recruiting.
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone in employee benefits to hear that people in different generations listen and respond to messaging in different ways. Generational differences show themselves in many aspects of our lives, financial, social, or otherwise.