Employer Strategies

With President Barack Obama’s federal overtime-pay overhaul likely to die either in court or under Republican Donald Trump, some legislators are trying to replicate it at the state level.

Jobless claims rose by 10,000 to 247,000 in the week ended Jan. 7 from the lowest level since 1973, a report from the Labor Department showed Thursday in Washington.

Reward programs tied to organizational values outperform other programs on every metric evaluated, SHRM and Globoforce study shows.

Employees need more support and education to understand their high-deductible health plans, new report finds.

Though most workers are still in the dark about such products, they see the value once explained, according to Sun Life research.

Asking these questions can go a long way into ingraining well-being into the fabric of a company, experts say.

As if the start-again, stop-again saga with the U.S. Department of Labor’s rules increasing the minimum salary threshold for exempt workers wasn’t confusing enough, one state has changed its own rules.

Attorney John Martini explains who is liable for the withdrawal of multi-employer benefit plans and the termination of single-employer plans.

The U.S. ranks poorly among 14 developed nations, with U.S. females having the shortest life spans and U.S. males the second shortest.

A bevy of additional expenses, while rarely stated, weigh heavily on the decision to visit a physician.