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Benefits Think News You Can’t Use (but wish you could): Alberta to ring in new year with no health premiums
On Jan. 1, Alberta, Canada will eliminate its annual premiums for individuals and families for all of 2009. Employers who have paid their employees´ premiums can reinvest the savings in other employee benefits or compensation programs, or they can choose to hold on to the savings. The move is being…
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: EBRI turns 30
The Employee Benefit Research Institute is all too modest. Not wanting to toot their own horn, we'll do it for them! This week, EBRI, dedicated to the development of sound employee benefit programs and public policy through nonpartisan research and education, celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Benefits Think News you can’t use: Will lick boots to prevent getting the boot
People always say they don't know what they'd do in a desperate situation until actually placed into it. Today's economic crisis is no exception. A new survey by Randstad USA shows that almost three in four employees would go to lengths to protect their jobs.
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: E-Mail Addiction
We all know you love your CrackBerry, but there's such a thing as too much contact.
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: “Sick” or “Hooky”
No matter how much you like your job, there are days when huddling under the covers, playing golf, or just watching TV sounds much better than going to work. According to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey on absenteeism, one third of workers have played hooky by calling in sick when they weren't.