Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Commentary: From implementing automatic enrollment to eliminating participant loans, here are five actions plan sponsors can take this year to improve their 401(k) plans.

Commentary: One’s ability to select an appropriate health plan is paramount to meeting their specific needs, yet four in 10 uninsured people do not know basic health insurance terms.

Commentary: Once considered a tool primarily for employee motivation – think the team lunch or years-of-service awards – recognition has shifted to become a far more sophisticated tool for leading companies around the world.

In their benefit plans for 2016, employers are, in general, continuing along the path that they’ve been traveling for the past 10-15 years: Their overarching goal is to offset escalating healthcare costs, while continuing to sponsor quality programs for employees.

Commentary: From professionally managed accounts to online investment advice and more, here's a look at where progressive plan sponsors will take their 401(k) plans in 2016.

Commentary: Although steps are being made by the healthcare community to improve the coordination and efficiency of healthcare delivery, true healthcare value will be achieved only when combined with effective health promotion that creates better health.

Commentary: For employees who are also caregivers, there’s often not enough hours in the day to do good work and good caregiving. Being an employee/caregiver comes at a price for both businesses and employees.

Commentary: One area of business that hasn’t kept pace with the economic rebound is compensation for key talent.

Commentary: For wellness programs to take hold, employers need a sustainable engagement strategy built around strategic communications and use of appropriate incentives. But in order to do that, employers must first understand and appeal to their diverse workforce.

In its Browning-Ferris decision, the National Labor Relations Board took the opportunity to reevaluate the joint-employer standard in light of the recent trend in the use of contingent workers.