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Mental Health Backlash Fears Keep Workers On The Job

BetterUp

In December of last year, the surgeon general of the United States issued a stark warning that young people are facing a devastating mental health crisis. In the 53-page report, it was noted that globally, anxiety and depression have doubled during the pandemic. Worldwide, nearly 1 billion people are living with a mental health disorder.

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HIPAA Violation Amounts Adjusted for 2022

AssuredPartners

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released an updated list of annual inflation adjustments applicable to monetary penalties to be assessed on or after March 17, 2022 for violations occurring on or after November 2, 2015. Adjusted penalties are calculated as a result of multiplying the preceding year’s penalties by 2022’s cost-of-living multiplier of 1.06222 and applying that number to each individual penalty amount.

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5 Ways To Improve Team Cohesion In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

Hiring the right talent is imperative for achieving success in the workplace. But that is not where your work ends. Your next step is to build a group of talented individuals that has the zeal to work together. This necessitates the development of team cohesion among individuals to form a group capable of bringing success to the organization. But what does it take to build the necessary group cohesion?

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What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is PTSD? Symptoms and diagnosis of PTSD. What causes PTSD? How do you prevent developing PTSD? PTSD complications.

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

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.

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MT Court Weighs Difficult AWW Issues in Concurrent Employment Claim

The Workcomp Writer

In a decision that illustrates the tender balance attempted in state Workers’ Compensation Acts between fairness to the injured employee and fairness to the employer and/or carrier, the Workers’ Compensation Court of Montana earlier this year held that an injured employee’s compensation rate for her 10-percent whole person impairment must be based upon her average weekly wage from all her concurrent employment at the time of the injury and not at the time she reached maximum medical improvement

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Can HR Cultivate Company Leaders?

Hppy

Too often, HR is associated with hiring, firing and managing conflict to keep an organization running on a basic level. The responsibility of building talent within the workforce is often relegated to business leaders — but leaders have so much else on their to-do lists that identifying and encouraging leaders from the workforce can fall to the wayside.

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Evaluating Gene Therapy Financing Programs

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Gene therapies for rare health conditions have the potential to vastly improve or even save a health plan participant’s life, but they often come with a high price tag, sometimes. Read more > The post Evaluating Gene Therapy Financing Programs appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Workers Right Now?

CorpStrat

Employers across the country are facing a huge issue right now: too many open positions and not enough workers. On its face, it seems like there are simply not enough workers available for jobs, but that’s not actually the case. The unemployment rate is hovering just below 5%, translating to roughly 7.5 million unemployed Americans (source: Bureau of Labor Statistics) , which tells us there are people available for work.

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What is Pain?

Fern Health

Pain is subjective and it can be hard to know how to describe it or measure it. Learn more about why it’s so important. The post What is Pain? appeared first on Fern Health.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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HDHP Telehealth Relief Extended for Remainder of 2022, but Mind the 3-Month Gap in Relief

Snell & Wilmer Benefits

On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (the “2022 CAA”) was signed into law. Section 307 of the 2022 CAA extends the relief permitting high deductible health plans (“HDHPs”) to provide telehealth and other remote care services free of charge before a participant meets their required deductible, but there’s a catch. The CARES Act and IRS Notice 2020-29 first issued the relief for telehealth and other remote care services provided on or after January 1, 2020 for plan years be

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Monetizing employees may not be illegal, but it’s not a good practice

Business Management Daily

Financial pressure can come from lots of different directions. Surely you’re not responsible if employees blow their paychecks and then some on expensive stuff. However, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , employees can become indebted to their employers for the cost of essential tools and employer-mandated training. Surreptitious data collection, the sale of such data, and the subsequent marketing to employees is yet another problem the CFPB identified.

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The Ultimate Guide to Human Resources

Darwinbox

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Digital Health Coaching as a Modern Employee Benefit

TalentCulture - Employee Benefits

Whether working onsite in the healthcare, construction, service, and hospitality industries throughout the pandemic, the stresses of the past two years have taken their toll. Employees are tired. Employee Burnout […]. The post Digital Health Coaching as a Modern Employee Benefit appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions as Easy as Copy and Paste

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has spurred an uptick in religious exemption requests. In this Politico article, McDermott Partner Michelle Strowhiro explains how some workers are copying and pasting exemption documents from anti-vaccine websites. “The religious exemption is not a tough standard for a worker to submit,” Strowhiro said.

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How to lower employee stress about health insurance

Insperity

Health insurance is often the biggest-ticket item in any company’s benefits package, and the cost of health insurance rises on average each year , historically. Companies spend a lot of money, time and effort to make their benefits competitive and provide quality group health insurance plans to employees. But perhaps not enough time is spent educating employees about their available options and helping them navigate what those options mean for them and their families.

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How Manager Effectiveness Impacts Performance, For Better or For Worse

15Five

To quote everyone from Damocles to Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. It’s a truism for a reason, but it’s more relevant to managers than most. An employee’s relationship with their manager defines their workplace experience. Within companies, managers have been found to account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement across business units.

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It Isn't Maybe so Simple

Florida Workers' Comp

I overheard an interesting conversation recently that seemed to focus on challenges of economic opportunity. The speaker was espousing the perspective, essentially, that if things where you live are not what you would like the best option would be to find somewhere else to be. That was intriguing to me from the perspective of accrued value and investment.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

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?

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What You Should Know About Human Resource Management

Professionals Alternative

Human resource management refers to the organizational function managing the entirety of issues that are related to the individuals in an organization. This includes but is unlimited to hiring & recruiting, training, communication, compensation, performance management, wellness & benefits, organization development, safety, employee motivation, policy administration, and more.

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HRA’s You Didn’t Know About

Benefit Resource Inc.

Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) are a flexible health care financing tool that can be used by employers to assist their employees with paying for out-of-pocket medical expenses. HRAs come in many different shapes and sizes, allowing the plan design to be tailored specifically towards employees’ business needs. HRAs can be a great way to save on health care costs.