Back to school
With 81% of its population either Millenials or Generation Xers, the American Institute of Toxicology had to overcome the challenge of promoting promising talent that had practically no leadership experience.
Benefit management
New regulation opens up consumer communication methods
New proposed rules for the "uniform summary of coverage" may change the way health insurers and group health plans provide consumers with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health plan benefits and coverage starting in 2012.
Workers’ comp market shrinking
For workers' compensation insurers, costs are going up as the market shrinks, according to a recent report released by the National Academy of Social Insurance, observing they are fighting to pay more for smaller slices of the pie.
Moderate pay raises on tap for U.S. workers
Reflecting uncertain economic conditions and a conservative cost-management environment, U.S. employers are projecting moderate pay raises for employees in 2012. Employers expect to fully fund their annual bonuses for workers this year, as corporate profits have increased, according to new survey data by global professional services company Towers Watson of 773 employers.
Severance plans weathered the recession
While companies have been slashing payrolls in recent years, a new study finds that at least they haven't been trimming their severance packages. Severance and change-in-control plans have survived the recession fairly intact, according to a study released this week by WorldatWork and Innovative Compensation and Benefits Concepts LLC (ICBC), an HR consulting firm.
Five problem employees and what you can do about them
1. The poor fit. Bibby Gignilliat, 51, chief executive of Parties that Cook in San Francisco, thought she had hired a winner but found her new employees customer-service skills far from polished. She kept saying things were awesome and totally cool and she would use like every other word, even after repeated coaching, making a bad impression on customers," Gignilliat says
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Gwen Moran
Legal to deny an employee’s vacation request?
If you offer your employees vacation time, you may be wondering whether and when you can deny a vacation request.
45,000 employees on strike over benefits
Almost half the workers in Verizon Communications' wireline telecommunications business went on strike on Sunday as negotiations for a new labor contract failed.
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Helping HR managers pick the right online form
Running a small business well requires the ability to gather and manage a vast array of data, from sales leads to customer complaints and employee vacation time. Because this information is so critical, business automation companies, such as Basecamp, LiquidPlanner and Salesforce.com, charge good money to organize it.
Color-blind communications
Faced with the current challenges brought on by the financial crisis, company priorities have been forced to shift, and employees are often left with a lack of understanding and insufficient guidance on their benefits choices at work.
Twitter mishaps can cost you $28,571 per character
According to a new survey from Symantc Corp., the negative consequences from a social media misstep cost a typical employer $4 million per year. For a 140-character message on Twitter, thats more than $28,000 per character an eye-popping sum that will make HR/benefits professionals want to literally watch employees Ps and Qs on social media sites.
Benefits Think EBN announces 2011 i-COMM Awards winners
President Ronald Reagan was famously known as the “Great Communicator.” In a commentary for the New York Daily News to mark what would have been Reagan’s 100th birthday, Fred Thompson said Reagan’s reputation as The Great Communicator “boils down to three basic traits: he was simple; he was clear; he was sincere.”
Employers not converting data to dollars
Despite state and federal mandates that require employers track data on when employees are out of the office, companies fail to use the data to manage the associated cost implications, according to a new survey.
Leveraging base pay, paid time off and incentives to develop a dexterous pay structure
Determining accurate employee compensation may be difficult, but settling on the wrong figures can hamper employee productivity or spike turnover. So, when employers take the time to create fair bonus systems, paid time off policies and base compensation pay practices, it certainly is worth the effort.
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Curt Finch
What’s in it for me? (And me, and me)
Employers address challenges of retaining employees across generations and gender.
Zappos CEO: Company culture boosts bottom line
Before joining Zappos Chief Executive Tony Hsieh dreaded coming to work at his own company. It wasnt fun to work there anymore because the company culture went completely down the drain, he told the keynote audience at the annual Society for Human Resource Management conference in Las Vegas.
Workforce analytics drives business outcomes
Organizations that integrate workforce and business performance data into their analytics tools are nearly three times as likely to achieve best-in-class performance results as those who dont, says a new report on workforce analytics from Aberdeen.
Program lends top talent to work in developing nations
For the year ending in September 2010, 26.3% of Americans (or 62.8 million people) volunteered through or for an organization at least once, according to the Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among working Americans, 29.2% volunteered, compared to 23.8% of unemployed persons and 22% of those not in the labor force.
Benefits broadcasting network
When government officials in Orange County, Fla. decided to move to a consumer-driven health plan last fall, they knew they would have to approach communications in a new way. While the county has 6,500 employees, its health plan covers approximately 19,000 lives, including dependents and employees at a few other government agencies.
EBN guest blogger offers fellow professionals word to the wise on EDIs
In high school, I remember sitting for hours typing documents on printing shells for my school's Ditto machine. While my peers rushed to class in the afternoons, I sat silently typing quizzes, handouts and tests. Other students called me "little miss goody two-shoes," but I didn't mind. I knew working in the school office would teach me the necessary skills to succeed.
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Karrie Andes