Advantages of Voluntary Benefits

Advantages of Voluntary Benefits

Employees generally recognize that you don’t have an unlimited budget for all forms of compensation, including employee benefits. And in recent years most have grown accustomed to the necessity of sharing more of the financial burden of health benefits. So if...

Medical Emergency at Work? Take Steps to Prepare

There are workplace safety rules for almost every conceivable category of jobs or tasks, courtesy of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The underlying law, set out in the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, also requires employers to...

Measuring Wellness Program ROI

Wellness programs are increasingly popular with employers and employees. But employers should not necessarily expect to get the spectacular returns on investment (ROI) that many studies of health promotion programs claim to deliver. When measuring wellness program...

Religious Accommodations in the Workplace

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on a job applicant’s or employee’s religion.  But did you know that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws also require employers to provide religious accommodations in the workplace for...
HSA Requirements for Employers

HSA Requirements for Employers

The pace of Health Savings Account (HSA) formation has picked up. A survey by the industry group “America’s Health Insurance Plans” (AHIP) found 28 percent of the nearly 400,000 HSAs in existence at the end of 2012 were established that same year. In...
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