Employer Strategies

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Reconciliation Act includes a provision that amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to provide nonexempt nursing mothers unpaid breaks to express breast milk in a private place other than a restroom for up to one year after the child's birth.

The Internal Revenue Service has published guidance relating to rollovers from 401(k) plans to designated Roth accounts in the same plan.

Every company has a few: a Negative Nellie or Nelson who, no matter what you do, would never be happy. Like, if you offered every employee a million dollars, they'd be upset it wasn't given to them in small bills.

In the current global economy, many employers are faced with difficult questions regarding foreign transfers.

In a three-month period, about one-quarter of U.S. adults experience at least one day of back pain, according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

Walk into any well-run early learning/child care facility, and you'll likely be floored by an assault of cuteness: happy children working on art projects, being read to by caring teachers and eating nutritious snacks.

For employers, managing talent has never been more important. Organizations, particularly ones who've suffered massive layoffs over the past two years, are leaner and meaner.

Recently, I came across a blog post on the Mother Jones Web site that put in the starkest terms I've ever seen the reality of the retirement crisis.

Principal Financial Group will exit the medical insurance business (both insured and self-insured), the firm announced Sept. 30.

According to a survey on workers' perception of employee benefits, both high- and low-wage earners say benefits are vital to their health and financial security.