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Mastercard partners with financial wellness platform to provide instant wage access
Mastercard has teamed up with a voluntary benefit company and banking institution last week to help hourly employees make ends meet by providing easy access ...
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Free college degrees for Chipotle employees
Forget free meals and flexible scheduling; employees at Chipotle can go to college for free. The Mexican-inspired restaurant chain announced the launch of its newest ...
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What would a workplace emergency-savings benefit look like?
An alarming number of workers don't have enough money saved away to carry them through even a short-lived financial emergency, and experts are urging employers ...
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Minding the healthcare benefits knowledge gap
Over the last decade employers have begun to understand the importance of offering employees financial wellness benefits. Financial concerns are a chief distraction for workers ...
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Higher hourly pay may not help fix poverty
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 probably won’t fix poverty, and might actually hurt poor people instead. That’s the message of Ryan Young’s Oct. 2 ...
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Rethinking healthcare benefits for better recruitment, retention
Employee benefits are an important part of recruiting and retaining talent and most plan sponsors offer a range of benefits, including medical, pharmacy, behavioral health, ...
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How to avoid mishaps in the run-up to open enrollment
With the start of open enrollment season each fall, Jennifer Benz takes to social media with some trepidation to gauge the mood of employees. The ...
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As mandatory sexual harassment training expands, here’s what employers need to know
There was a time when sexual harassment training was a “just check the box, let's just get this over with” annual event, says Andrew Rawson, ...
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Resist the urge to access: The impact of the Stored Communications Act on employers
As an employer or manager, have you ever collected a resigning employee’s employer-owned laptop or cellphone and discovered that the employee left a personal email ...
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6 voluntary benefits your employees want
In this age of the multigenerational workforce and a tight labor market, a one-size-fits-all group benefits model with medical, prescription, dental, vision and a retirement ...
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Health insurance surpass $20,000 per year, hitting a record
The cost of family health coverage in the U.S. now tops $20,000, an annual survey of employers found, a record high that has pushed an ...
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A look at the DOL’s final rule: White collar exemption and overtime
Reporting that 1.3 million workers will now become eligible for overtime pay, the DOL has released its final rule to update the exemption requirements of ...
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