Is Your 401(k) Plan Out of Date?
Like an old house that was cutting-edge when it was built but hopelessly archaic today, your 401(k) may have fallen behind the times. Is this true of yours? And, if so, what can you do about it?
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Strategies for Smart Salary Surveys
Yesterday, we got some important guidance on job descriptions as they relate to your compensation program, courtesy of John Rubino of Rubino Consulting Services. Today, Rubino’s thoughts on salary surveys: the good, the bad, and the potentially illegal.
iCIMS Takes Top Honor in Customer Satisfaction
Yesterday’s Advisor presented rankings of recruiting software from G2 Crowd. Today, the infographic that displays the information graphically. As was mentioned in yesterday’s issue, the grid ranks recruiting software on two scales, market presence and customer satisfaction. (Of course, these are not necessarily the two factors that will be priorities for your organization. For example, […]
EAPs—Helping Your Workforce Weather Their Day-to-Day Storms
In yesterday’s Advisor, we shared 10 ways that your employees can recognize and deal with workplace stress; today, consultant Bridget Miller presents the basics of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), and how they can benefit both employees and the business as a whole.
Deflategate and the power of external investigations
After more than three months of waiting, we finally got the investigative report regarding the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate” incident that occurred during the NFL’s AFC Championship Game earlier this year. Was it worth the wait? Was the NFL’s subsequent punishment just? It’s pretty clear it depends on whom you ask. Authored by Ted Wells […]
Cities With The Longest Workweeks—Big Apple At The Core
Scott M. Stringer, New York City Controller, knows his city is among the hardest working in the nation. And Chicago is the “City of the Big Shoulders,” according to Carl Sandburg. But Stringer recently issued a study of which cities in the United States had the longest workweeks. How do you think the city where […]
8 essential lessons I learned from my mom
by Dan Oswald A couple of days ago we celebrated Mother’s Day, and while one day each year clearly isn’t enough to honor our mothers, it does provide us with the opportunity to thank the women in our lives for everything they have done to love and support us. A number of years ago, I […]
HATFA Will Cause Largest Pensions to Cut 2015 Plan Contributions
The renewed decline of funded status for defined benefit retirement plans this year has not led the largest U.S. DB plan sponsors to contribute from their coffers to compensate, a phenomenon that one investment advisory firm attributes to temporary interest rate stabilization. Until this year, corporate contributions to DB plans typically correlated with the plans’ […]
DOL: Plans Must Cover All Contraceptives, Not Some
Plans and insurers must cover all 18 contraception methods approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a new set of questions and answers on the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care coverage requirements. “Reasonable medical management” still may be used to steer members to specific products within those methods of contraception. A plan […]
Are You Training Managers to Avoid These 15 Common Ways They Could Risk Legal Action?
In today’s Advisor, we share some valuable advice from our sister publication, HR Daily Advisor, on how to use training to avoid lawsuits.