Kathryn Mayer

The global chemical company joins a growing number of employers who have started 2017 with enhanced paid leave policies.

These four benefits professionals were recognized this year for their efforts helping employees get healthier, smarter and more financially aware.

Here’s what large employers, including Starbucks, Amazon and Staples, did this year to redefine their employee benefit packages.

The company announced it is significantly bolstering its leave benefits for new parents, as well as increasing its employee benefits for fertility, surrogacy, adoption and lactation.

The furniture retailer’s U.S. employees will be eligible for up to four months of paid or partially paid time off. The company also announced a new sabbatical program.

Tom Price’s nomination has employers hoping the Trump administration will give a “thoughtful relook” to healthcare reform that focuses on cost.

Tom Price’s nomination has employers hoping the Trump administration will give a “thoughtful relook” to healthcare reform that focuses on cost.

In advance of the Thanksgiving holiday, EBN asked a range of professionals what they are grateful for, and their happiest successes in 2016.

Employers need to refocus efforts to change employees’ behaviors by embracing best practices including auto-enrollment and auto-escalation.

Employers will “be watching to see how the new administration will maintain or change legislation and regulations impacting benefit plans,” says IFEBP CEO Michael Wilson.

President-elect will look to shut down exchanges and set up tax-free health savings accounts for people with high-deductible insurance plans.

Nearly every employee at the travel company participates in the firm’s wellness program.

The office-supply retailer announced a new program offering the perk to “top performing” employees.

The office-supply retailer announced a new program offering the perk to “top performing” employees.

Nearly every employee at the travel company participates in the firm’s wellness program.

The streaming giant helped put paid leave benefits in a new light after it announced it was offering as much as one year of PTO to new mothers and fathers.

The mass media conglomerate’s robust benefits package ranges from eldercare and adoption assistance to entertainment perks, such as free TV and Internet services.

The global chemical company has made an exceptional commitment to work-life balance and its associated perks, including flexible work arrangements, wellness, eldercare and onsite childcare.

The global chemical company has made an exceptional commitment to work-life balance and its associated perks, including flexible work arrangements, wellness, eldercare and onsite childcare.

The mass media conglomerate’s robust benefits package ranges from eldercare and adoption assistance to entertainment perks, such as free TV and Internet services.