AIG adds surrogacy benefit, boosts adoption reimbursement
The financial and insurance firm is the latest employer to beef up its family-friendly benefits offerings.
Benefit management
Benefits Think No, employers don’t always want your advice
Your clients don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Wendy Keneipp
Q4intelligence
Benefits Think The baby health insurance playbook: How to help employees plan for a newborn
Pregnancy, childbirth and making the best benefits decisions can be overwhelming. But HR managers can help make the process a little easier with the right communication tools.
Eric Brewer
Corporate Synergies
Benefits Think The U.S. is the only developed country without mandated paid parental leave. How did we get here?
The disparity matters not only to workers, but to employers’ bottom lines. Losing skilled workers because leave isn’t available costs companies big-time.
Anna Steffeney
LeaveLogic
Benefits Think Here’s how brokers can beat Goliath
Independent Davids are winning accounts by using strategies and techniques they call NextGen benefits. Here’s how it works.
Benefits Think Employees may be relying on company stock too much – and what employers can do about it
Many workers overlook the importance of diversification, but employers have tools to guide them in a better direction — including financial wellness programs.
Amy Reback
Charles Schwab
Benefits Think 4 ways to get the most bang out of your benefits buck
One helpful hint: Prioritize employee retention over recruitment when designing your benefits package.
Tuan Nguyen
Relation Insurance Services
Benefits Think The U.S. is the only developed country without mandated paid parental leave. How did we get here?
The disparity matters not only to workers, but to employers’ bottom lines. Losing skilled workers because leave isn’t available costs companies big-time.
Anna Steffeney
LeaveLogic
Benefits Think What clients want: Benefit plans with a punch
To compete effectively, prudent benefit advisers need to be more innovative in new benefits plan designs that have meaningful impacts on employees.
Jack Kwicien
Daymark Advisors
Benefits Think 4 ways to get the most bang out of your benefits buck
One helpful hint: Prioritize employee retention over recruitment when designing your benefits package.
Tuan Nguyen
Relation Insurance Services
Judge blocks Trump plan to revoke Obamacare contraceptive rule
The Trump administration’s effort to let companies with religious or moral objections opt out of ACA contraception requirements hit a roadblock on the eve of the new rules taking effect.
Travel agency books Decisely as its benefits provider
Expedia CruiseShipCenters partnered with the brokerage to provide medical and retirement benefits to its franchise owners and their employees.
In bid for top talent, MassMutual the latest employer to bulk up benefits
The life insurance giant’s new offerings include caregiving, fertility and gender affirmation benefits.
In bid for top talent, MassMutual the latest employer to bulk up benefits
The life insurance giant’s new offerings include caregiving, fertility and gender affirmation benefits.
Travel agency books Decisely as its benefits provider
Expedia CruiseShipCenters partnered with the brokerage to provide medical and retirement benefits to its franchise owners and their employees.
More than cash: These are the bonuses employees want
Extra pay is still a popular method for rewarding workers for performance, but employees are looking for other types of rewards — which is good news for employers.
NYC’s de Blasio seeks paid vacation law for private workers
The law would require private businesses with five or more employees to give at least 10 days of paid vacation a year.
When every day is bring-your-kid-to-work day
A Utah-based startup allows parents to bring their newborns into the office as an extension of its paid parental leave policy.
More than cash: These are the bonuses employees want
Extra pay is still a popular method for rewarding workers for performance, but employees are looking for other types of rewards — which is good news for employers.
Despite benefit progress, workplace discrimination against breastfeeding still prevalent
A new report finds that 27.6 million female workers of childbearing age do not have basic necessities for nursing at work.
