Benefits Think

Among February's "Five Minutes With ..." podcasts is Managing Editor Leah Shepherd´s interview with Len Gray, the head of the America´s M&A consulting business at Mercer. After you read our report on merger musts in this month's EBN, listen to Gray as he offers further tips for handling benefits...

This month, EBN spent "Five Minutes With ..." Dennis Ackley, president of Missouri-based Ackley Associates. HR/benefit managers are the unfortunate staffers called upon to deliver the news workers never want to hear. To help companies design communication strategies for delivering bad benefits news, Ackley...

Diversity training generally makes employees apprehensive at best and defensive at worst -- a fact that EBN contributor Jarik Conrad concedes. However, he offers several traps for you to avoid in crafting a diversity training program so it can be less scary and more successful.

Want your employees to be happier with their benefits? Tell them more about them.

This is long overdue, but I'm not sure it's going to make much of a difference. As a society we need to start raising our daughters to ASK for what they want rather than politely waiting for someone to notice them.

Following President Obama's White House ceremony this morning to sign into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, representatives of women's groups are voicing their approval. Among them:

President Barack Obama this morning signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which, according to the Associated Press, clarifies that the 180-day statute of limitations is extended every time an employer violates the law by issuing a paycheck or engages in other practices that discriminate.

Sunlife Financial Inc., a Toronto based financial services organization, released a retirement poll today finding that 64% of employees would continue working past 67 in order to retain health benefits -- a motivator that rose from the sixth most popular reason in August to the third in December when...

As childhood obesity threatens the nation as significantly as adult obesity, two Blues plans have launched obesity disease management programs to help their youngest members get back on a healthy track.

Good news or bad news? You make the call.