Recruiting and Retention—What’s Really Happening?
Recruiting and retention—nothing is more important for any company. What’s happening with recruiting and retention in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out!
Tag: benefits
Third EEOC Wellness Lawsuit Draws Industry Ire
An employer group criticized the latest legal challenge to an employee wellness program filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The commission alleges that Honeywell International, Inc.’s biometric testing incentive for employees and their spouses violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. “This is an outrageous development, and one that […]
It’s PPA Restatement Time! … Wait, What’s That?
By Brandy Cross, Milliman Have you heard about PPA restatements but aren’t sure what’s required? Let’s start with some background on the process, and then describe steps that retirement plan sponsors should take to implement it. All plans that use a preapproved plan document must be restated before April 30, 2016. Failure to amend by this date will […]
Vehicles Drive Wacky Worker Excuses for Bad Behavior
Vehicles are driving some wacky workers’ comp stories that resulted in fraud charges for a car driver and a bike rider.
Insuring long-term disability insurance
by Richard E. Johnston In Canada, benefit plans are subject to legislation related to income tax, human rights, and employment standards. However, there is little specific regulation of benefit plans other than pension plans. A key exception is the provision of long-term disability benefits that are not funded under an insurance contract—at least for federally […]
Health Care Reform Mandates: Impending Dates
The next three months are crunch time. Employers have to get moving on several deadlines, most of them required under health care reform. Some reform rules should have taken effect in 2014, but were subject to the year-long delay instituted by the Obama administration. Health Plan Identifiers Nov. 5, 2014 is the deadline for large group […]
Will City Slickers Give You Your Next Big Idea?
Among my favorite movies is the 1991 film City Slickers. Billy Crystal plays radio ad salesman Mitch Robbins, who is having a bit of a midlife crisis. Mitch and his two best friends decide to leave New York City to spend 2 weeks on a cattle drive in the Southwest. It’s there that Mitch meets […]
Few Self-Insured Plans Will Escape Paying Reinsurance Fees
Only self-insured plans that completely self-administer claims payments and plan operations will avoid paying onerous transitional reinsurance fees. If a self-insured health plan does no more than determine eligibility, it will have to pay, according to Jeffrey Endick, an attorney with Slevin & Hart in Washington D.C. An exception exists to the onerous fee $63 per-member-per-year fee: Self-insured […]
Tech Taking Over? HRIS Trends
Most every company is looking at the HRIS. What should your system be doing? For some guidance on this trend, we turned to BLR’s recently published HR Playbook: HR’s Gameplan for the Future.
Plan Controls Respond to PBM Spreads, Generic Cost Spikes
If a pharmacy benefits manager promises a group health plan that there will be no administrative fee for drugs, it actually could be a red flag and not a cause for celebration. It could mean the PBM is “gaming the spread” or not passing rebates through to the plan. Plans can prevent this kind of […]