Employer Strategies

Employer-sponsored Mercer Complete Care helps employees manage individual, family health plans, benefits.

What employers need to bring down healthcare spending and improve care quality is a strategy that helps employees understand the care they need, what it costs and where they should get it.

Many employers and advisers do not think about this law when it comes to such compensation, says attorney Casey K. Fleming.

Potential cost increases within DB plans attributable to late retirement should be fully understood, says Principal’s Mike Clark.

Lawmakers are not experts on healthcare, so it is incumbent on brokers to help educate them, says Ed Oleksiak, VP at Holmes Murphy and former legislative council chair at NAHU.

The advice environment for participant rollover choices is muddled as plan providers struggle to gear up for the DOL’s rule.

Employers are still planning to increase compensation but the figure has not been changing year over year.

Companies are beginning to shift resources toward benefit adequacy as worries mount about employees’ ability to prepare for life after work.

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In the U.S., women on average earn around 21% less than men, a figure that amounts to women earning roughly 79 cents, on average, for each dollar earned by men in the labor market. Here is a look at some of the industries with the widest gender pay gaps, based on Glassdoor data.