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Are employer health plans paying fair prices?

Employee Benefit News

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How Employee Benefits Can Help Shape Workplace Company Culture

Griffin Benefits

“Organizational culture” may be an overused phrase, but culture — and the employer-employee connection culture generates — has become part of recruiting, retention, and the assembling of the right benefits package to engender long-term loyalty. How important are culture and connection within an organization? They definitely can make a major difference in candidate interest and employee satisfaction.

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Family friendly benefits: What’s offered and where there’s still room for improvement

TLNT

Sometimes it’s easy for employers to forget that there’s one thing that unites a good many of their employees: the fact they have children.

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Employee benefit trends 2023

Employee Benefits

Employee needs always change but there has never been a bigger shift in the history of people management than the fallout from COVID in 2019 and the economy in 2021. To add to the turmoil, stress levels continue to grow, as do people’s wellbeing and health challenges. Hybrid working is impacting engagement, and communicating with a fragmented workforce continues to frustrate employers.

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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3 employee benefits to ditch

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What employers ask when considering outsourcing benefits admin

WEX Inc.

If you’re an employer, is your in-house benefits administration team struggling to juggle the multitude of complexities behind running a successful benefits administration program? Are you spending too much time and resources trying to keep up to date with compliance changes and providing the technology and services your employees need for a positive benefits experience?

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The 5 most in-demand benefits of 2023

Employee Benefit News

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5 ways to empower employees at your company

Achievers

Learn how to empower employees with five key steps. Organizations thrive when employees have the resources, motivation, and confidence to make decisions, complete even the most difficult tasks, and innovate along the way. This is what employee empowerment is all about. Empowered team members know their companies will support them as they tackle project after project, enabling them to consistently achieve success and grow as they take on new responsibilities.

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Tax Planning Tools and Techniques

Money Talk

With 2022 income tax season well underway and almost three months already passed in 2023, now is an appropriate time to review some evergreen tax planning tools and techniques. I recently attended a NY Public Library webinar about tax planning and below is a summary: Standard Deduction - 2023 saw the largest ever automatic adjustment to standard deductions since indexing was introduced in the 1980s.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Organizations Need an Artificial Intelligence Strategy

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes A few years ago, I published an article on “ Everything HR Needs to Know about Artificial Intelligence ”. I hope you’ll check it out. The purpose of the article was to explain what artificial intelligence (AI) is and how it might be used by HR departments. Since then, we continue to see articles about advancements in AI.

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Learn How to Start Journaling. It’s a Ritual Worth the Time

BetterUp

Did you know one of the most powerful self-improvement activities is right at your fingertips? No, it’s not working out or having good sleep hygiene (although these are great habits). It’s something even simpler — learning how to start journaling.

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How to support the wellbeing of mental health first aiders

Employee Benefits

In order to be able to effectively support someone with their mental health , mental health first aiders (MHFA) need to ensure they are protecting their own wellbeing and not pouring from an empty cup. An essential part of the MHFA training should be a clear understanding of the role and its boundaries. Ensuring that MHFAs have access to a more experienced mental health professional about feelings that they have been left with, or challenging conversations they may have had, is critical.

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In the ‘soft’ vs ‘hard’ skills debate, soft skills are winning

TLNT

It’s commonplace for experts/commentators to say things are in danger of reaching a ‘tipping point’ – be it the global climate emergency or the breakdown of relationships, or the point at which unhappiness turns into depression.

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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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New Employee Welcome Email Template

Qandle

Starting a new job can be an exciting yet nerve-wracking experience for any employee. As an employer, it’s important to make a good first impression and ensure that your new hire feels welcomed and valued from day one. In this post, we’ll provide you with a template for a warm and informative welcome email that you can customize and send to your new employees.

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[Podcast]: DOL’s 2022 Final ESG Rules

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, Proskauer partners Ira Bogner and Adam Scoll and law clerk Tanusha Yarlagadda discuss the Department of Labor’s final ESG rules issued on November 22, 2022, and how those rules affect the consideration by ERISA fiduciaries of environmental, social, and governance or “ESG” factors when making investment decisions and exercising shareholder rights, such as voting proxies.

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What impact has the pandemic and economic crisis had on pay gaps?

Employee Benefits

The UK government suspended pay gap reporting in 2019/20 due to the pandemic and delayed enforcement for 2020/21, giving organisations an additional six months to publish their data. Those in insecure work, such as zero hours contracts and temporary employment, suffered greater falls in earnings and hours during the pandemic than those on secure contracts.

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How Can Low Employee Engagement Hurt Your Workplace?

Vantage Circle

Low employee engagement indicates that something is seriously wrong at your company. It gradually saps your employees' energy and creativity, impairing their performance at work. But how do you figure out what's causing your employees' morale to suffer and how to fix it? This article will delve more into the topic and discuss how HR leaders can work around improving their employee engagement efforts.

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HR Trends to Watch in 2024 + Plus Advice for Driving Impact!

The pressure is on to create a positive onboarding experience. Plus, a sub-par onboarding process can domino into other concerns such as low performance, burnout (for you and new hires), and retention challenges. Our 2024 State of HR report will give you a realistic picture of the HR landscape and tips to onboarding effectively in the year to come.

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Benefits Decision Support: The Tool Every HR Team Needs

Flimp Communications

Picking a health plan from multiple options is notoriously difficult. And employees often make the wrong choice. Here's everything you want to know about the solution: benefits decision support tools. The post Benefits Decision Support: The Tool Every HR Team Needs appeared first on Flimp.

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What Studs Terkel can teach us about how we talk about work

Workplace Insight

Studs Terkel is a particular hero of mine. I like his name, his style, his association with jazz but also the way he wrote. His characteristic approach was marked by interviews with ordinary Americans about their jobs and how they felt about them. He did lots of other stuff but that was his work. What is especially striking is that he saw himself as a chronicler of other people’s lives rather than a commentator on them.

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New Mexico Department of Game and Fish on hunt for bear huggers

Employee Benefits

Something for the weekend: The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is going on a bear hugger hunt, looking for a conservation officer to patrol the parks and wilderness areas, and potentially encounter some of the US state’s 6,000 black bears. In an advertisement posted to its Facebook page, the department stated that this is a role for people who are fit , trusting and courageous, who have the ability to hike in strenuous conditions and trust coworkers to keep them safe during the process.

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Wellness Programs Grow in Wake of Pandemic

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers have often long struggled to boost participation in their wellness programs, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed that as people started looking for ways to better care for themselves both physically and emotionally. The pandemic added fuel to the country’s mental health crisis and more people than ever are seeking out counseling to cope with the stresses of life.

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Improving Access To & Utilization Of Cancer Screening With Color

Discover how Color's comprehensive care solution is revolutionizing cancer screening adherence and knowledge. Through an in-depth case study, Color's unique approach to comprehensive cancer care has shown significant benefits in increasing screening rates and enhancing patient knowledge. Participants reported a 2-3x increase in adherence to screening guidelines over just 8 weeks, with 84% of participants increasing their familiarity with timing and frequency of cancer screening.

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The Layoff Letter Blueprint: 10 Ways to Write A Polite Layoff Email to Employees

HR Digest

Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals. In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Layoffs are never easy , but sometimes they are necessary to ensure a company’s sustainability.

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Employee Birthday Wish Email Template

Qandle

Building a healthy work culture includes a number of vital components, one of which is the recognition of employee birthdays in the workplace. Not only does this assist improve morale among workers, but it also helps establish ties among members of the team. But, coming up with a unique and customized greeting for each employee may be a time-consuming process, particularly in more substantial businesses.

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EXCLUSIVE: 70% struggle to keep wellbeing communication relevant

Employee Benefits

EXCLUSIVE: Seven in 10 (70%) large employers find it difficult to ensure health and wellbeing support communication is always relevant to employees, according to Towergate Health and Protection research. The research, which comprised responses from 500 HR decision-makers, found that the figure dropped to 50% among small to medium enterprises (SMEs).

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You May Need to Rewrite Your Severance Agreements after NLRB Ruling

InterWest Insurance Services

The National Labor Relations Board has taken a big step in deciding that non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses in employee severance agreements are illegal, a move that will require most employers to rewrite theirs. The board ruled that these provisions stifle employees’ and ex-employees’ rights under Title 7 of the National Labor Relations Act to discuss work and their employer with one another, among other things.

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Individual Development Plan Template

There’s no way around it: sometimes employees need your help. Use this free template to clarify expectations, share resources, and set a timeline. Best case scenario, this process helps them improve. Worst case, your great recordkeeping keeps you compliant even if they move on. Download the template today!