Benefits Think

I spent Employee Benefits day working on employee benefits. Yea!

Think your company would benefit from an onsite clinic but can't afford the investment? Trying getting by with a little help from your friends, so to speak.

The world (wide web) is full to bursting of social networking sites -- so much that it's easy to get network fatigue. However, a new option is just for HR pros to help them build their own web community.

I know the economy is brutal, and you are working overtime to keep your CFO at bay regarding staff and benefits cuts. In this environment, cash rewards and other perks may seem like easy cannon fodder.

I love any excuse for a party, but this is a genuinely good reason: The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is leading today's celebrations for National Employee Benefits Day.

According to a recent poll on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com, 49% of HR pros said FMLA is the law that gives them the biggest headache.

I got another one for you to take to your legal eagles. According to a blog alert from Winston & Strawn, the Treasury Department will participate in a Public-Private Investment Program to buy up "legacy securities" (a much kinder, gentler term for "toxic assets").

Clearly, no employer wants to layoff valued, hardworking staff, but the recession has left many companies with little choice. However, I hear that some employers are doing their best to take the sting out of such action by offering outplacement services.

President Obama in February signed the Children´s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIP), extending the federal program to provide health insurance to low-income children and carrying new implications for group health plans, which by the by, become effective tomorrow, April 1.

Designed to build upon FMLA, four Democratic Reps. Pete Stark (Calif.), George Miller (Calif.), Lynn Woolsey (Calif.) and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) last week introduced the Family Leave Insurance Act of 2009, which would provide 12 weeks of paid benefits to workers who need to take time off to care for an...