December, 2022

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These benefits will help HR tackle new (and old) challenges in 2023

Employee Benefit News

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Business Standard Mileage Rate Increases to 65.5 Cents in 2023

PayrollOrg

Beginning January 1, 2023, the business standard mileage rate for transportation expenses paid or incurred will increase to 65.5 cents per mile.

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Confessions of a benefits manager: Candid has leadership training

Employee Benefits

I am deeply worried. It might seem a strange thing to get upset about, but I have been put forward for our ‘special’ effective leadership training. There are only two ways to get on the programme: one is to be assessed as high potential , the other is if you are such a bad manager that it is a sort of remedial treatment for poor behaviours. You will know by now that bad management is pretty much normalised in my company, so I think you would have to kill someone to qualify that way.

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3 ways to care for your team’s mental wellbeing this holiday season (and yours too!)

Employee Benefits

Author: Jennifer Gendron – Global Chief Commercial Officer at Koa Health – Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing Solutions. The holidays can feel unduly stressful, as if all of us are rushing so that we can relax. With end-of-year deadlines and other time-sensitive priorities, everyone is trying to push one more deliverable over the finish line to spend quality time with their families.

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Combatting the Effects of Inflation: Keeping Benefits Competitive While Cutting Cost

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP - Employee Benefits and Total Rewards Leader, World at Work Content Author, and Speaker

After years of facing the global pandemic, we are now struggling with a new problem: inflation. No one could have predicted the impact of inflation on employee benefits and how it affects both employees and employers. Employers are now trying to maintain or lower the cost of benefits while competing for talent in a competitive and tight labor market, but the rising costs of consumer goods and healthcare make it extremely difficult to consider increasing their benefit offerings.

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How to Surprise Employees on Christmas & New Year?

Empuls

Employees are the elemental force that steers a company to success. It is vital for them to remain happy and satisfied to be productive and focused. Their contribution and efficiency should be recognized and rewarded as this will create affinity, energy, and desire to work harder and perform better. Hard work, performance, achievement, excellence, and other positive traits in your employees must be appreciated.

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Six ways to support employees with money worries

Employee Benefits

The current and growing cost of living crisis that’s now impacting so many people across the UK could prove to be even more of a disruptor to employees than the pandemic was. According to our recent survey , over 9 in 10 workers say the cost of living crisis is as worrying or more worrying than the COVID pandemic was. This means businesses who value their people will be wanting to find ways to provide support for workers with financial worries.

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Want to retain frontline staff? Get to know them

TLNT

We all know quitting is becoming contagious.

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Playing It Safe During the Holidays

InterWest Insurance Services

As the holiday season nears, your business will have new safety considerations to confront. From holiday parties and risk of electrical shock to fires and trips and falls, companies have a set of safety and risk management challenges that may not be present during most of the year. Decorations present their own set of safety challenges, and so does a company party.

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11 Tips for HR Professionals to Successfully Honor the Holidays

Darwinbox

The holiday season can be a challenging time for HR professionals. From managing time-off requests to making sure that all employees feel included and supported during this special time of year, HR departments hold a huge responsibility during the holidays. This article explores 11 tips for HR on managing the holidays successfully.

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Unleashing AI in Recruitment: The Ultimate Guide

Discover the power of AI in recruitment with Paycor’s complete guide. Learn how to streamline your hiring process, increase interview pipeline, uncover candidates other tools miss, and save time. Get ready to revolutionize your talent acquisition strategy today!

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Affordable Care Act: Good Data Practices Can Lead to Better Compliance

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at ADP , a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions. Industry analyst firm Nelson Hall recently identified ADP as a leader in both the small and medium business as well as mid to large market segments. Congrats to them!

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IRS Releases 2023 Publications 15 (Circular E),15-T, and Forms W-4, W-4R

PayrollOrg

The IRS released the 2023 Publication 15 (Circular E) and 15-T and Forms W-4 and W-4R.

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Work-Life Integration: What It Is And 5 Ways to Develop It

BetterUp

Work and life have integrated more than ever before. With employees working from kitchen tables and living room couches, it’s impossible to spot the difference between home and work.

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Make retirement plan portability a New Year's resolution

Employee Benefit News

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HR and Employee Healthcare Reform: Keys to Increasing Employee Wellness and Retention

Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

Your employees are your most valuable resource. If you want to retain employees and keep them happy, you want to make the incentives more valuable. With a full-stack employee experience, culture, health, wellness and benefits navigation solution, you can provide employees with the wellbeing support they need. The results? Employees who are happier, healthier, and more engaged, as well as a business that is thriving both internally and externally, every day.

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How To Not Let Job Interview Feel Like An Interrogation

HR Digest

I had a job interview one time where the interviewer was nothing like I had expected. She was welcoming and nice, and she had a great smile on her face. It felt so unreal having such an interview and coming across such a great personality. I was amazed, to say the very least. Unfortunately, many of us have had to attend interviews that made us so uncomfortable and it looked like we were in on something other than the job.

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Hallmark Care Homes unveils £1.3 million winter support package

Employee Benefits

Hallmark Care Homes has invested £1.3 million into a winter support package to help its employees with the cost-of-living crisis. The measures include paying all of its 2,300 members of staff at or above the new rate set by the Living Wage Foundation from today (1 December), ahead of the implementation deadline of 14 May 2023. Living wage salaries have been raised to £10.90 per hour across the UK and £11.95 for those based in London, ensuring that a full-time worker on the UK rate receives more

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IRS Proposed Regulations Would Permanently Allow Remote Witnessing of Spousal Consent

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

The IRS issued new proposed regulations that would permanently change the rules that require spousal consent for plan distributions to be signed in the physical presence of a notary or plan representative. Specifically, the proposed regulations would allow plans to accept remote notarization or witnessing by a plan representative if the remote process meets certain standards aimed at ensuring the integrity of the process.

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You’ve been doing engagement surveys wrong all this time

TLNT

Engagement surveys are like bread and butter to HRD departments – they’re the go-to staple for finding out the health of people and the organization.

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Cancel Quiet Quitting: Detoxing Corporate Culture & Engaging Top Talent

Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

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How to Deal With Rejection: 7 Tips

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why it hurts to be rejected. What are the 5 stages of rejection? How to deal with rejection. You have work to do.

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HR leaders share their tips for crafting a pitch-perfect end-of-year message

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7 Signs of a Good Manager

HR Digest

A good manager is a great asset to both an organization and its employees. Not only are they able to manage their team well, but they also possess some strong leadership skills that can have a positive effect on those around them. However, it’s difficult sometimes for people to know the signs of a good manager and how to easily spot them. Employees are also concerned about working with an individual that can show empathy and help them grow career-wise.

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Charles Cotton: 2023 will bring a focus on low-cost wellbeing support

Employee Benefits

In today’s volatile, uncertain and complex world, making predictions for the coming month is difficult enough, let alone making them for 2023. The cost-of-living crisis has had, and continues to have, a significant and widespread impact on the world of work. Next year, it is likely the UK will be in recession, though the downturn’s duration and depth is uncertain.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

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S.D.N.Y. Voids ERISA Plan’s Arbitration Provision

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

A district court in New York recently refused to enforce an arbitration provision in an ERISA fiduciary breach lawsuit challenging the valuation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”). The ruling in Lloyd v. Argent , No. 22-cv-4129, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219964 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 6, 2022), exposes the continued uncertainty as to the enforceability of arbitration provisions when applied to ERISA fiduciary breach claims.

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The State of American Financial Wellness and Financial Stress, 2022

Best Money Moves

The State of American Financial Wellness and Financial Stress, 2022. The Covid-19 pandemic changed Americans’ relationship to their personal finances. Here are the top financial wellness and financial stress highlights from 2022. The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed Americans’ relationship to their personal finances. Study after study has found that more than half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.

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Biofeedback for Stress: How It Can Improve Your Health

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is stress, and what does it do to your body? What is biofeedback? What biofeedback procedures are available? What can you learn from biofeedback? Using biofeedback to lead a healthier life. Biofeedback: Success stories of stress management. The benefits of using biofeedback. Finding new ways to relax.

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5 ways to manage the 'whole employee' wellness trend

Employee Benefit News

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Creating Benefits Flexibility Your Employees Will Value

Speaker: Alex Anderson - Total Rewards Strategist at Lockton Companies | Leo Tokar - President, People Solutions and Partner at Lockton Companies

The workforce of today has a completely different perspective on total rewards, and it's time for businesses to adjust to meet their requirements. Employees want more personalization. In fact, the most common inquiry that total rewards experts receive from workers in all fields is how much control they should have over their compensation and benefits.