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An advisory group urged U.S. officials to formulate a set of essential health benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that is in line with cost of insurance in a typical small employer plan.
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Employees need time to make big benefits decisions. Most benefits managers know this; what might not be known is more communication methods are needed to allow for the best decision making.
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Target-date retirement funds will represent nearly half of the total $7.7 trillion in U.S. defined contribution assets by 2020, and low-cost passive funds along with innovative, customized active accounts will be the fastest-growing strategies adopted by investors, squeezing out the currently dominant mutual funds. That's the forecast of Casey, Quirk & Associates, a consulting firm to the global asset management industry.
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Open Enrollment. Those two words are at once frightful and insightful. It’s a time when you’re able to make decisions with clients and do the work you love to do, but it’s also filled with late nights, long meetings, and at times, intense frustration. Research has shown that the open enrollment period also is a time of added stress for employers seeking to protect their financial health while offering a cost-effective and robust health plan for
October 11
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HR leaders from four of Fortunes 100 Best Places to Work share their tips and strategies on how to foster a productive and happy workforce. Representatives from KPMG, Intel, W. Baird & Co, and Microsoft discussed their companys best practices for work life balance, leveraging social media and corporate transparency.
October 11
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According to Walgreens, last flu season resulted in 100 million lost work days and nearly $7 billion in lost wages. In addition, Walgreens projects that nearly 2 million business trips were cancelled last flu season.
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The IRS recently issued Notice 2011‐72 and a Memorandum for All Field Examination Operations, which provide a road‐map for employers to avoid taxing employees on cell phone expenses. Following the de‐listing of cell phones as "listed property" from Code section 274(d) last year, there has continued to be some uncertainty on the proper tax treatment of employer‐provided cell phones (and reimbursements of cell phone costs). This guidance, summarized below, clarifies the proper tax treatment and
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I know of someone who is surviving the unthinkable, the impossible. Perhaps an indication that I've been in this business too long, her loss made me wonder about bereavement policy.
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Investors appear to have switched gears from focusing on replenishing their balances from 2008s market downturn to taking all of the responsible steps to prepare for retirement, according to Principal Financial Groups analysis of retirement plan participants behavior in 2010.
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