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We recently reported that employer-sponsored 401(k) plans with above-average performance criteria are likely to be offered by companies that have 20-percent to 80-percent higher corporate profitability than companies with average-rated plans. This was all according to new T. Rowe Price research. Today we have new analysis of that report by our Benefits Editor, Jane Meacham.
How much more powerful is artificial intelligence (AI) about to become, and how important are human beings at the center of it all? It’s an interesting question, and ChatGPT has obviously forced this issue to the front of everyone’s minds. But the reality is that AI has already influenced recruiting in many ways. For me, […]
While the initial blame for the Great Resignation was placed on younger workers who were happy to sit at home with a government stimulus check instead of a job, data suggests that the driving force behind the current labor shortage may be more closely related to older workers’ choosing to retire early. Baby Boomers Finally […]
As we make strides toward openly discussing race in the workplace, we must also remember that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was still legal to include “blacks need not apply” in job ads. Once outlawed, explicit discrimination in hiring morphed into implicit barriers, taking on the form of coded […]
Tennessee’s workers’ compensation statute allows injured workers to recoup benefits regardless of whether they are lawfully employed. In a recent case, a West Tennessee federal district court considered whether an undocumented immigrant could file a lawsuit against his former employer, whom he claims fired him in retaliation for pursuing workers’ comp.
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals recently offered employers some guidance—and perhaps some encouragement—in determining whether an employee is a “qualified individual with a disability” and, more important, what’s “reasonable” when you’re accommodating an employee during the initial training period.
In a May 18 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court compelled a stop-loss insurer to pay a direct premium tax on stop-loss policies sold to self-funded health plans. Stop-loss insurance written in Texas for self-funded plans is not “reinsurance” and thus must pay state levies and follow state insurance rules, the court held. American National, a […]
Employers have seen an enormous number of changes recently to various rules about how they manage their employee base. This includes a notice of proposed rulemaking by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in late 2023, sweeping memoranda from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and final rules from the NLRB on joint employment. All of this is […]
Employers naturally want to find out as much as they can about potential hires—after all, they’re going to invest a lot of time and money in onboarding and training. But references—both providing and obtaining them—can result in sticky situations.
Compensation laws are changing, and the changes will likely mean you’ll do things differently. The Ledbetter decision, covered here in recent issues, may have you scrambling to document pay decisions better and keep the records longer (or indefinitely). What you may not know is that these decisions could have an impact on your overall human […]