Employer Strategies

The new tax law lowers the tax rates for many investors, allowing clients to enhance tax savings on the converted amount.

Here’s why it’s important: When it comes to benefit plan cost management, pennies make nickels and nickels make quarters.

The proposed changes to health savings accounts will require employee notifications and communication efforts as well as enrollment system and payroll changes.

Another legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has advisers grappling with new business strategies and tactics.

Plan sponsors and advisers: “It is important to realize that three or four years from now, what is done today will be examined, and it needs to be done with a good standard of care and mitigation of conflicts of interest.”

Cloud migration is among the forces altering the human resources technology consulting landscape, says Deloitte’s Christa Manning.

PSU’s school of business will offer an online, one-year course for human resources professionals.

The domestic steel producer saw savings of $870,000 after it initiated Castlight’s health navigation platform.

Copyrights tend to be company property while inventions tend to belong to the worker, making agreements necessary to ensure the employer obtains possible rights.

This does not mean that plan sponsors and committee members cannot insist on getting non-conflicted fiduciary advice; it just makes their job harder.