Benefits Think

This article says, "For employees, a workplace employee assistance program can provide much-needed help. Most employers now have one, but communication still lags."

Although some employees tend to breeze past beneficiary elections, a new Supreme Court ruling may give them pause.

A latte, the new Fall Out Boy CD, something for lunch and oh -- I'll get that cough checked out.

The Wall Street Journal recently published a list of five ways to fix their 401(k). Easy at that, huh? Read it, and then comment on what tips would be on your list.

Wow, what a difference a news cycle makes. In yesterday's EBN inBrief e-newsletter, we featured an item about how optimistic Congressional Democrats were about health care reform.

Interesting -- that puts yet another twist in this already complex plot. I'm looking forward to see how it ultimately shakes out and what Sec. Napolitano decides.

Is any retirement vehicle safe? I keep looking, but all I see are returns that are the financial equivalent of auto crash tests where the dummy's body snaps all around then slumps over the wheel. Know what I mean?

An alternately sad and scary article in USA Today shows that even for Americans who are working, the affects of the recession are far-reaching and can't be compartmentalized into separate "work" and "life" boxes.

I heard at a conference last week that employers have to sign a memorandum of understanding to participate in eVerify. Lawyers warned that the MOE allows the government to search some employer info and databases without a warrant.

E-Verify, a system rule that would require employers to screen workers to ensure their employment eligibility (read: immigration status), has been tabled until May 21 to give new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano time to review it.