Healthcare

Companies like Dow Corning and IBM are jumping on the bandwagon for overseas employee volunteer assignments with an eye on insights into joint markets, improved skills and increased retention among the youngest and hungriest workers.

Ford has said recently that Canadian labor costs are the most expensive it faces around the world.

Maximizing enrollment and healthy participation starts with crafting a health savings account that fits employees’ needs and ends with making sure they know how it can help them.

Participants in comprehensive workplace wellness programs achieve a significant reduction in health risks in as little as 18 months, according to a new study conducted by the Principal Financial Group, with the greatest impact among participants who also received personalized health coaching.

Mississippi insurance commissioner Mike Chaney is in a tight spot. By law, he is required to implement Democratic President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But as a Republican from deeply conservative Mississippi — one of 26 states that sued Washington over Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Chaney is a target of critics who say he is betraying his party.

While nowhere near the risk of smoking or lack of exercise, high-stress, low-freedom jobs make people 23% more likely to have a heart attack.

Before eligible individuals and small employers begin shopping in the public health care exchanges in 2014, private retiree Medicare exchanges provide a glimpse of what public and private health insurance exchanges could look like.

Health care reform and employers’ desire to limit their health insurance costs will fuel interest in defined contribution health benefits and private insurance exchanges, according to an EBRI report

IBM, Sodexo frame social media to enhance company culture, business results.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a letter to members of the House Financial Services Committee supporting a bill aimed at narrowing the definition of “municipal advisor,” without weakening investor protections.