Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Private medical insurance (PMI) has become the most important perk that employees look for in their benefits package, according to new research by Zest. The employee benefits technology platform’s findings highlight growing challenges in the UK around access to healthcare, as more people explore private provision as opposed to solely relying on public healthcare, due to growing waiting lists.
PeopleKeep
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Offering robust employee benefits can greatly help companies that are looking to attract and retain top talent. In addition to offering traditional benefits like health insurance or retirement contributions, more employers are offering stipends to employees. These are additional funds an employer provides to cover specific employee expenses on a one-time basis or on a regular cadence.
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Employee Benefit News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Samantha Citro-Alexander, CEO of Bitewell, explains why food is essential to preventative care.
McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Student loan debt is set once again to impact millions of American workers. Fortunately, starting next year, employers will have new ways to help employees navigate student loan debt. Provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act will allow employers to provide employer-matching contributions based on their employees’ qualified student loan repayments outside the plan.
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Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.
Money Talk
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
I recently taught a class with the same title as this post. It began with a summary of recent “scary” economic events: recession fears, rising interest rates, bank failures, volatile stock prices, increased costs of basic expenses due to inflation, layoffs, low savings rates, increasing credit card APRs and household debt, housing unaffordability, and more.
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HR Bartender
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Organizations want to operate in an ethical manner. They also want to be effective and efficient. There’s no reason that organizations have to compromise on doing it all. It starts with building a good foundation of ethics. But then organizations need to think about how to maintain ethics, no different that regularly examining data and information to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Two-thirds of UK employees do not feel a sense of connection and belonging at work, according to research by employee engagement and HR technology firm Reward Gateway. Its survey of 1,000 UK employees in organisations with a headcount of more than 100 also found that 24% of respondents often experience loneliness at work. Gen Z workers aged between 18 and 24 years were the most likely age group to feel this way,with 32% saying this is the case, despite 81% workers having a social network at work
Employee Benefit News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
As many as 80% of short-term health plan enrollees say that affordable premiums are more important to them than comprehensive health benefits.
PayrollOrg
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
PayrollOrg is pleased to announce that Vice President Ronald Gilson, CPP, was selected to serve on the IRS’s Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee.
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Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Two thirds of IT workers and nearly half of office workers think that generative AI may come for their jobs within five years, according to a new report from Ivanti. The poll of nearly 8,000 respondents worldwide also suggests that 57 percent of people report ‘serious friction’ with workplace technology at least weekly and 61 percent say negative experiences with work tech affects their morale.
Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Banking organsiation Santander, Department for Education and Thames Valley Police were recognised at the 2023 Menopause Friendly Employer Awards. Hosted by Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace and sponsored by HSBC UK, First Direct, Marks and Spencer Bank and Peppy, the awards were presented by broadcaster Louise Minchin last week. Now in its second year, the awards recognise organisations and individuals who have committed to provide support, solutions and resources to normalise menopause in t
Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
A recent Ninth Circuit decision has generated considerable controversy amongst employee benefits practitioners by holding that plan fiduciaries engaged in prohibited transactions when they amended the plan’s existing recordkeeping contract to add brokerage and investment advisory services. In so ruling, the Court remanded the case to the district court to consider whether the transactions fell within the exemption for reasonable service agreements and, independently, whether it was imprudent for
PayrollOrg
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
PayrollOrg recently sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on wage and hour/pay period requirements and the impact of bank failures.
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Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.
Workplace Insight
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Fully remote workers can have a 54 percent lower carbon footprint compared with fully in-office workers, and all forms of remote and hybrid working have the potential to cut emissions, according to a new study from researcher at Cornell University and sponsored by Microsoft. The authors conclude that lifestyle choices and work arrangements playing an essential role in determining the environmental benefits of remote and hybrid work.
Employee Benefit News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
More elderly consumers are being diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia — making them vulnerable to scammers. Financial institutions are seeking special certifications to better equip themselves to help.
BetterUp
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
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PayrollOrg
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
On September 14, the IRS announced it will not process any new employee retention credit (ERC) claims to help protect businesses from scams.
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As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?
Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Sarita Coleman, head of reward at the RSPCA, will present a session about employee engagement on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2023. Titled Employee benefits: staff engagement is key , the session will cover employee benefits and the importance of staff engagement, how not to assume that all employees know what is available or relevant to them, how to look inwardly at existing offerings to avoid duplication and confusion, and that communication is king when it comes to maximising offer
Florida Workers' Comp
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The United States continues to be the target of an illogical madness. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently explained How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner of the US. I remember in the 1990s when I first heard of Fentanyl and the various doctors who expressed their eager and adoring attitudes toward it. There were many orthopedic patients suffering intractable pain and we were all led by the physicians into the opioid expansion.
Employee Benefit News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
An exec from the clothing and shoe brand explains why being accommodating to parents this fall could save companies from losing their female workbase.
PeopleKeep
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
According to the Commerce Institute 1 , 4.4 million businesses start up each year in the United States. Starting a business is an exciting yet challenging endeavor for hard-working entrepreneurs and can come with many unforeseen hurdles, like hiring and keeping a team.
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Employee Benefits
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
What do you think of when you hear the term ‘sustainability’? Green plants filling the office, colour-coded recycling bins or an array of reusable coffee cups? There are many small ways we can take eco-friendly approaches within the workplace. But when we look at the scale of the climate crisis we’re dealing with, it highlights how important it is for businesses to take bold, direct action.
Insperity
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
When you think about employee wellness, categories like physical, emotional and social probably first come to mind. But what is your organization doing to prioritize employee financial wellness? For employees, their personal financial wellness is an acute concern right now. So, what can employers do to address these mostly external factors that can impact employee wellbeing?
Employee Benefit News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Hybrid plan designs that reduce out-of-pocket costs will make benefits more accessible and ultimately help level the playing field.
Business Management Daily
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
About 18.4% of all U.S. adults are visually impaired, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means they are blind or have a great deal of difficulty seeing even when wearing prescription glasses. The causes vary. Some visually impaired people have eye diseases like macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy.
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