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Compensation & Benefits

More employers paying staff to stay ‘fiscally fit’

04/19/2018
An increasing number of employers are giving money and other incentives to workers to encourage them to fund their emergency savings accounts, reduce their debt and attend financial education classes.

Strong connection between wellness, lower turnover

04/17/2018
Employers that featured five or more wellness best practices had average turnover of 18%, compared to 29% for employers that had implemented two or fewer.

Establish process for verifying employment

04/17/2018
Verification of employment requests are not difficult to process, but you do need a formal system for responding to them.

Get expert legal help when drafting retirement offers that include health benefits

04/16/2018
A federal court has granted a temporary injunction in a case involving continued health insurance coverage. The court concluded that a group of retired workers would likely succeed on the merits of their case.

Employees pessimistic about retiring before age 65

04/10/2018
Thirty-seven percent of workers expect to work past age 70, an increase from 30% two years ago.

SEIU slashes ‘Fight for $15’ funding

04/03/2018
Union funding to organize fast-food employees was cut in half last year, according to a new study by the conservative Center for Union Facts.

Most millennials have nothing saved for retirement

04/03/2018
Two-thirds of millennials have absolutely no retirement savings according to a new report by the nonprofit National Institute on Retirement Security.

Paid sick leave legislation could pass in New Jersey

04/03/2018
New Jersey appears to be on the brink of becoming the 10th state to enact a mandatory paid sick leave law.

4 questions about Austin’s new sick leave law

03/28/2018
Answers to four reader questions about the new law.

As millennials rise, health consumer behavior changes

03/27/2018
Now that millennials have begun to outnumber baby boomers and Gen Xers in the workplace, they’re changing the way employees use health care, according to new research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.