Employer Strategies

The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges primarily affects the administration of benefits and almost exclusively applies to employers in those states that previously did not recognize same-sex marriage.

Commentary: Good faith effort, transition relief, 30-day extension and other safety nets for 6055 and 6066 tax filing.

Despite the wide range of cannabis program laws, consistent themes have begun to emerge.

Commentary: EBA columnist Nelson Griswold says benefits RFPs are universally awful and HR should abandon them. Advisers, he says, should also be wary of them.

The National Institute on Retirement Security takes issue with a recent Manhattan Institute report on pensions, saying it is irrelevant and highly flawed.

A successful employee benefit program has to be in harmony with the culture of the organization.

While the HR tech platform Zenefits offers a solution that addresses certain employer pain points, it also asks employers to dump their current broker. A new tech solution promises the same benefits without asking employers to sever their current broker relationship.

Beyond benefits, employees are looking for clearly defined career paths and providing them one might help employers' retention strategies.

Plan sponsors wishing to offer a professionally managed series of investment funds should note the following problems with target-risk funds that cause them to be vastly inferior to target-date funds.

Some have compared the changes in health care to the changes that occurred in the retirement industry 30 years ago when companies switched from pension plans to 401(k) plans and put the responsibility on consumers to pick investments. But George Tzinas, chief experience officer at BenefitAlign, says it is not the same.