
10. Setting self-funding strategy
In the past few years, however, more small and midsize employers are finding that self-funding gives them the flexibility they are looking for in health care benefits for employees. The article continues here.

9. Employers top 10 HR/benefits trouble areas revealed

8. Employer achieves health accountability with performance reviews
Read more about the company's unique dedication to employee wellbeing.

7. Its okay to stall employees
One practitioner suggests using the restroom as a place to communicate benefits information.

6. Zappos CEO: Company culture boosts bottom line
When he began his work at Zappos, he decided to make a change. Eventually, the company's mission evolved from having the greatest selection of shoes online, to providing the best customer service, to having a dynamic and fulfilling company culture. Click here for more advice on creating a positive company culture.

5. IRS issues PPACA guidance on W-2 reporting

4. Legal to deny an employee's vacation request?
To answer this question, you must understand that, while there may be state laws regulating how vacation time accumulates and is compensated, there is no law that requires employers to provide their employees with paid or unpaid time off.
Vacation time is thus generally only subject to the limitations and conditions contained in employment contracts and workplace handbooks.
You maintain the ultimate authority. Find out more here.

3. Debt collection looms large as legal plan issue
The carrier says lawsuits related to these issues are often used as a tool to frighten consumers. "Were seeing much more of it now than we ever did," according to Michael Fiffk, an attorney with Welch, Gold and Siegel, P.C. Read on here.

2. Walgreens speaks out on withdrawal from ESI network

1. Firing employee for eating hot dogs unjustified
Because, as a result of failing to do just that, a panel of three judges sitting on the Indiana Court of Appeals determined that Koewler was not justifiably fired from a local Dillard's department store. Now Dillard's unemployment taxes are going to go up. Click here to read the article.