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Can Commuter Benefits Help People Return to the Office?

TalentCulture - Employee Benefits

The pandemic changed how we live and work in so many ways — not the least of which was the daily commute. But now, after years of working remotely, many employees are returning to the office at least a few days each week. That’s why employer-sponsored commuter benefits are on the rise again. No matter what […] The post Can Commuter Benefits Help People Return to the Office?

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How is the cost-of-living crisis affecting what employees want from their benefits packages?

Employee Benefits

The cost-of-living crisis has employees demanding pay rises in line with inflation, but many employers are unable to afford this long-term. Benefits that support financial wellbeing and education, including day-to-day budgeting and discounts, can help pay stretch further without raising pay. Employers should focus on practices that are sustainable and work for their business, while communicating and compromising with staff.

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State Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Chart Updated for 2023

PayrollOrg

Check out the APA's list of state unemployment insurance taxable wage bases, updated to reflect changes for 2023.

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How to attract and retain top talent in 2023

Achievers

Why do people join and stay at an organization? Ask a hundred employees, and you’ll probably get a hundred unique answers, but most will boil down to one thing: a compelling employee value proposition (EVP). Your EVP encompasses all the benefits and opportunities your company offers to attract new employees and keep current ones. It goes far beyond the size of an employee’s paycheck to include whether they feel valued, engaged, and welcomed on a daily basis.

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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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Use FMLA to support employee mental health

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Mitie focuses on front-line reward as cost-of-living crisis mounts

Employee Benefits

Strategic outsourcing and energy services business Mitie has tight margins, but still sees the importance of protecting and supporting front-line staff during difficult periods, meaning it has to focus on benefits that are affordable for the business, but make a real difference to employees. Jasmine Hudson, chief people officer at Mitie, says: “Employees want more than just the basics; they want wellbeing, flexibility off the back of Covid-19, and then also social value and the environmental ang

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Proposed Universal Contraceptive Coverage in Response to Roe Reversal

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The US Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (the Departments) recently issued a proposed rule to eliminate a moral exemption to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate and establish an “individual contraceptive arrangement” to permit individuals to obtain contraceptive services at no cost in instances in which their employer does not offer […] The post Proposed Universal Contraceptive Coverage in Response to Roe Reversal appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEFI

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Virtual Travel Benefits Are Taking Off. Here’s Why

TalentCulture - Employee Benefits

Work Norms Are Changing In 2019, about nine million U.S. civilians worked from home on a regular basis. Then the pandemic arrived. Nearly overnight, remote work became a necessity for a vast number of employees. In fact, by 2021 the U.S. remote workforce had tripled to nearly 28 million people. Now, as Covid fades, the […] The post Virtual Travel Benefits Are Taking Off.

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How UnitedHealth, Morgan Stanley and IBM are investing in systems of support for women executives

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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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Barbservations About Get Smart With Money

Money Talk

I recently watched the Netflix documentary film Get Smart With Money (1:33) to prepare for a discussion of the film with several dozen professional financial practitioners who are members of AFCPE. Below are my Barbservations about the film from the lens of a long-time financial educator: Content and Format Diversity and Demographics - The film featured four case study characters, each with a financial coach assisting them for an entire year.

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Register for Webinar About Louisiana Child Support Withholding, e-IWO

PayrollOrg

On March 16, join the APA as we host the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services for a free webinar explaining child support withholding issues in Louisiana. The federal OCSE will also explain the e-IWO process.

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How can employers help staff avoid burnout while managing productivity?

Employee Benefits

Burnout symptoms include increased frustration and irritability, indifference towards work, being withdrawn and tearful, higher levels of absence, and less inclination to learn and develop. Having regular conversations about mental health with employees, understanding more about the reasons behind burnout, and highlighting what support is available, is key.

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SECURE 2.0 Opens the Door on Retirement Match Based on Student Loan Payments

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

The grab bag of retirement provisions in the SECURE 2.0 legislation that was enacted at the end of 2022 included an expansion of the ability for a section 401(k) or 403(b) plan, or a governmental section 457(b) plan, to provide matching contributions on participants’ student loan payments. Effective for plan years starting after December 31, 2023, the change can help employees who might otherwise forgo matching contributions to pay off student debt.

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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 promote a culture of connection in the ever-changing workplace

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Register for Webinar About Louisiana Child Support Withholding, e-IWO

PayrollOrg

On March 16, join the APA as we host the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services for a free webinar explaining child support withholding issues in Louisiana. The federal OCSE will also explain the e-IWO process.

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HR and AI – why it’s all about trust

TLNT

It’s fair to say that with its almost limitless creativity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here and it’s here to stay in a big way.

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Cisco, Salesforce and Xero named UK’s best workplaces for wellbeing

Employee Benefits

Image credit: Valeriya Zankovych / Shutterstock.com Communications business Cisco, software organisation Salesforce, and accounting software provider Xero are among the employers listed as the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing in 2023. Other businesses included on the list were insurance firm Admiral, enterprise management software business Edison365, and call and live chat provider Moneypenny.

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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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What Actions can be Considered Workplace Retaliation?

HR Digest

Workplace retaliation is a serious issue. If an employee has been retaliated against, they may feel like they’ve been picked on, singled out, or treated unfairly in some way. It can also be difficult to know whether or not their employer’s or a superior’s actions were actually illegal. It can take a lot of court processes to end this type of situation, and that’s why business owners and HR managers must strive to prevent it.

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APA Meets With U.S. Department of Education on Loan Garnishments

PayrollOrg

The APA met with the Department of Education about student loan garnishments and resuming garnishments after the COVID-19 pause.

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New Insurance Policy: Why You Shouldn’t Set It and Forget It

AssuredPartners

When was the last time you sat down to review your insurance policy? Coverage isn’t typically something we care enough about to invest our time into. In fact, the average customer stays with the same insurance carrier for five years and seeks change after a triggering situation takes place. Lucky for us, we enjoy spending our time addressing insurance needs and work with a variety of carriers to ensure you receive the best option that suits your lifestyle.

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6 simple health and wellbeing apps to introduce to your employees

Employee Benefits

In the workplace, in recent years, the approach we take to wellbeing now extends much further beyond simply how an employee feels. Indeed, employers now recognise that they should take a holistic approach to wellbeing. In this, employers acknowledge that bad workplace wellbeing affects the number of sick days employees have, burnout, and job performance.

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How Can You Aggressively Manage Benefits Affordability?

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

Benefit cost increases regularly eclipse all other costs for organizations, yet bringing costs down is illusive. Now corporate priorities are swinging from solely a focus on talent to the need to actively manage benefit expenses, but no one wants to reduce benefits or ask employees to pay more. Join two total rewards experts, Alex Anderson and Leo Tokar, for an in-depth discussion on tactics to efficiently and effectively control and manage benefit cost.

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Workspace Design Show returns (and so do we)

Workplace Insight

A few of you may already know this story. It was some 15 months ago and three old friends met up for the first time in quite a while (well, we had been through lockdowns etc). Having caught up with each other’s news, the subject turned to industry journals, what the three friends felt the market was missing and the possibility of collaborating in the not too distant future.

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The cost of dementia: 5 things employers should know

Employee Benefit News

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PBGC (Slightly) Opens Door to Exceptions From Special Withdrawal Liability Rules for SFA Multiemployer Pension Plans

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

As previously discussed , the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the “PBGC”) issued final regulations in July 2022 for plans that receive special financial assistance (“SFA”) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”). Among other things, the regulations imposed special withdrawal liability rules on plans that receive SFA – including a phase-in period for the treatment of SFA as a plan asset and an obligation to use mass withdrawal assumptions during a certain period after receiving

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Connick Tree Care becomes employee owned

Employee Benefits

South England-based tree preservation and maintenance firm Connick Tree Care has announced that it will become employee owned. The plan was first announced to the business’ 75 members of staff in October 2022, and the process commenced this month, with the transition to an employee ownership trust (EOT) due to take place over the next few months. It was designed to secure the business for employees now and the future, at no cost to them.

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The 5 Types of Hourly Workers: An HR Guide to Recruiting and Retention

All hourly workers want similar things, but when it comes to recruiting & retention, it helps to understand personal motivations. Download Paycor’s guide to learn how to find & keep the 5 types of hourly workers.