Latest News
Best strategies for implementing a student debt benefits program
Employers have begun making greater investments in their employees’ overall well-being and placing a bigger emphasis on student loan debt as a source of financial ...
Doing well by feeling good: Pairing profit and purpose to improve employee health
Be more active. Eat better. Rest more. Individually, we know that these and other positive habits lead to better health and all the benefits that ...
Health agency reverses course on prescription drug coupon regulations
As a parent, I encourage my kids to resist the melodic siren call of procrastination. I share historical examples of how procrastination led to undesirable ...
DOL issues finalized overtime regulation
The DOL on Tuesday released its highly anticipated finalized overtime rule, raising the minimum salary level to $35,568 per year for a full-year worker to ...
The derailment of California’s payroll advance law
It seemed uncontroversial at first. A bill in California to create the country’s first regulatory framework for companies that offer early access to employees’ earned ...
IRS regulation aims to undo the ‘one bad apple’ rule
A pair of recent regulations may create new opportunities for smaller employers to provide cost-effective retirement benefits for their employees. The Department of Labor (DOL) ...
New voluntary benefit designed to help caregiver employees
CareGiving.com, an online library of resources for caregivers, has partnered with SeniorGuards, a caregiving solutions provider, to offer a new voluntary employee benefit to help ...
The (new) ABCs of classifying employees and independent contractors
Properly classifying workers as either employees or independent contractors is critically important for California businesses. Employees generally are entitled to benefits that contractors are not, ...
Whole Foods to cut medical benefits for part-timers
Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market is changing medical benefit eligibility requirements next year that could leave as many as 1,900 part-time workers without coverage. Employees will ...
What would change if your employees were CEO for a day?
When employees feel like their voices are being heard, they are reportedly 4.6 times more likely to contribute their best work, according to SalesForce data ...
Making the case for the six-hour workday
The eight-hour workday became common practice in the early 1900s, in a time before the rise of digitalization, robots and technology. Yet even today it ...
5 reasons employers should offer sponsored fertility benefits
Demand for top talent is pushing plan sponsors to enhance their employee benefits. Some are making changes to their fertility benefits and publicly sharing the ...
