Benefits Think

I came across a blog post yesterday by Michael Maslanka, who, while during some pro bono work, tried to assist an employer in crafting a fair and legally sound corporate bereavement policy.

You put your proposed rule in, you take your proposed rule out, you put your proposed rule in and you shake it all about.

Just a fizzy Friday post today. I don’t know about your office, but Friday is the day our wonderful office manager takes on the valuable but thankless job of cleaning out the office refrigerator.

New data from EAP provider ComPsych shows that HR pros say employee morale and productivity are bigger challenges for them over the next six months than health care costs and reform legislation.

Two similar surveys gauging executive and employee confidence in their companies’ strength to emerge from the still sluggish economy reveal that both groups believe their organization’s fate rests more on management than money.

Remember when employees blamed you in part for their financial troubles? Well, don’t shoot the messenger, but maybe it is.

In my entire career, I’ve never booked business class travel — ever. So I’ll freely admit that Energizer Battery Company’s travel rebate program, which incents employees to book coach over business class when traveling, is completely foreign to me.

Of course, everyone is fighting tooth and nail to retain grandfathered status for their health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and rightly so.

By now, you’ve likely heard about the controversy surrounding the ouster of Shirley Sherrod, a former senior-level official at the Department of Agriculture.

In real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. In benefits, it’s all about communication, communication, communication.