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Employee Benefits Guide for 2023: What Employers Need To Know

Vantage Circle

These benefits are given to employees over their salaries and wages. The organization pays specific amounts to cover an employee's medical care. Other types of medical care involve dental checkups, biometric screening, etc. It shows that the organization cares about the welfare of its employees and their families.

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Employment laws to watch in 2019

Insperity

A patchwork of state and federal laws was eventually replaced when Congress set minimum age requirements with the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. Here are a few major employment law trends sweeping the country: Sick and family leave. In 2018, a new sick leave or family leave law seemed to appear every week.

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Simple steps to create an employee handbook

Business Management Daily

Current employees can also benefit from having a quick reference guide when a question or concern arises about sick days, various types of leave, reporting harassment, or office policies. Also consider who to direct staff to with policy questions, leave requests, or workplace safety concerns or accidents.

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5 labor law compliance challenges in changing times

Insperity

From paid family leave and hiring to safety and sick leave – and all the many points in between – federal, state and local governments are forever changing what constitutes a company’s responsibility to its workers. Mental health and medical claims. Most businesses still have employee handbooks that prohibit drug use.

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Employment laws to watch in 2018

Insperity

The HR world is abuzz with all the implications of implementing New York state’s paid family leave legislation and California’s ban-the-box law, both of which went into effect January 2018. Paid family leave. New York State’s paid family leave legislation is billed as the country’s strongest.

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FMLA leave: Who’s eligible and for how long?

Insperity

Did you know there are three different types of FMLA leave, when it comes to scheduling and duration? The Family and Medical Leave Act, passed by Congress in 1993, entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons for up to 12 weeks.

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Protirement: Is the UK Government about to redefine ‘retirement’? 

LACE Partners

A key part of understanding the bigger picture for people when they leave the workforce for the golf course. . The term has been around for over 50 years, but until I came upon it in research for my recently published book, Solving the Productivity Puzzle (Kogan Page), I had never heard of it. Particularly for men. So, it is true….