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Small employers have big compliance mandates to contend with to meet the Government Accounting Standards Board Statement 45 rules (better known as GASB 45), which apply to measurement and disclosure of nonpension post-employment benefits. Times are tight enough economically; don't let noncompliance fines...

While some -- I admit, myself included -- hailed President Obama's recent edict that executives at companies receiving federal bailout money will have their compensation capped at $500,000, not everyone thinks the limits are a good idea.

No, not the daily chatfest on tv, EBN's new "View from the Andes" column from Karrie Andes, director of HR for Deffenbaugh Industries in Kansas City, and EBN's newest contributing editor. Andes will be running monthly in EBN this year. This month, she details her experience with mandating employee health...

Cupid -- with a little help from the economy -- appears to have hit his mark this Valentine's Day, as 78% of American workers love their job more than they did before entering the recession, reports a recent Workplace Insights survey from the recruitment and workplace solutions provider, Adecco USA.

U.S. House and Senate leaders reached a deal late last week on a $789 economy-recovery package, which includes $21.4 billion for health insurance assistance for laid-off workers. COBRA-eligible workers would receive a 60% subsidy toward their COBRA premiums for nine months.

Innovation breeds innovation around here, and just months after EBN launched the Daily Diversion, my colleagues at Employee Benefit Adviser have launched a blog of their own. Visit benefitsexplained.blogspot.com to check out their updates and video blog posts. I'll be linking to their content and vice...

This month, EBN reports that the trillions of dollars lost in national wealth from collapsing companies, lost jobs and homes, failing banks and sliding stock market as a result of the recession is simply too large for Americans to comprehend -- yet too large for them to ignore either, according to the...

As another cringe-worthy sign of the times, a new Mercer data on Fortune 1500 companies show pension plan funded status at the end of Jan was unchanged from Dec., indicating funded status of plans sponsored by the largest U.S. companies remained at 75%.

In this economy, free is a word that isn't heard very often, but sure is appreciated. So I knew you'd want to know about the slate of five free forums (say it three times fast) being sponsored by Unum and the Disability Management Employer Coalition.

Although employers have maintained recruiting college graduates for full-time hire, companies are beginning to discover that hiring new grads as interns can yield a high return in the form of cheap -- ahem, cost effective -- labor.