How to Offer Postsecondary Education Benefits
Yesterday’s post detailed information about why you should offer postsecondary education benefits to your employees, and today’s post will outline more information on how to do this.
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Bulletin Item: IRS Issues New Withholding Tax Table
To reflect changes adopted as part of the tax act passed earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service revised the tax withholding table for employers, as well as other rate schedules. The new withholding table became effective July 1.
Employment Law Tip: 3 Ways to Avoid FMLA Retaliation Claims
The requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be tedious to wade through sometimes, but familiarity with them can save you a lot of money and trouble later on. Here are three tips for staying clear of FMLA retaliation claims:
Will Stress Cause the American Workplace to ‘Snap’? Can Flexibility Save Us?
BLR CEO and Founder Bob Brady returns from a work-life conference with work/life balance flexibility as an antidote to stress, and a reminder to not forget the person who must make that flexibility work. Are things “about to snap” in the American workplace? Are we reaching a “tipping point” at which stress-related trauma is going […]
So Now We Know What Your Workers Think of You … And We’re About to Find Out Again!
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Our first National Employee Attitude Survey report showed your workers were getting only about three-fourths of what they want from you. Well, we’re running it again, starting on February 8, 2008. It’s still free, but you may find the results priceless. Here’s the article I wrote about last […]
Unhappy Leave-Time Discovery: Employee Wasn’t Doing the Job
Yesterday’s CED answered three tricky “during leave” FMLA/CFRA questions. Today, the challenge of suddenly discovered performance issues, plus an introduction to the definitive reference guide on family leave in California.
Michigan Firm Wins Reprieve From Contraceptive Mandate
In other legal action over health reform’s inclusion of reproductive services as mandated benefits, one company blocked the government from forcing it to include contraception coverage in its health plan coverage. The injunction in Legatus v. Sebelius, 2012 WL 5359630 (E.D. Mich., Oct. 31, 2012) was at the request of Weingartz Supply, a for-profit outdoor […]
Deferral Rates Beat Asset Allocation, Fund Choice for Retirement Goals
Plan sponsors and participants both want to ensure better retirement savings but they often wonder which factor in the process matters most. A study from Putnam Institute suggests sticking with the obvious: The higher the deferral rate during an employee’s working life, the greater the long-term returns. Despite intense focus on fund performance in the […]
Temporary Workers: Union Sues Ventura County For Using Temps
In the latest example of the trend toward challenging the use of temporary workers by government and private employers, Ventura County’s largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union, has sued the county. The union charges that the county paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past year to temporary workers in clerical, maintenance […]
Bulletin Item: WCIRB Issues Updated Workers’ Comp Numbers
These new figures lower the benefits cost estimates, based in part on savings from last year’s reforms and AB 749. In other workers’ compensation reform news, Gov. Schwarzenegger continues to press the assembly for action by threatening a January ballot initiative to take the issue of workers’ comp reform to the voters.