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.