Benefit management

The leading providers of human resource software-as-a-service products, according to Forrester Research.

PwC research from across the globe identifies a range of applications that are changing the way human resources are managed.

Retirement readiness would vastly improve by requiring auto features, increasing HSA contribution limits, and outlawing participant loans, among other recommendations, says adviser Robert Lawton.

Technology will influence every part of the workforce, requiring new skills for even the most entry level of jobs, providing new opportunities for employers to train and grow their workforce.

Plan sponsors should encourage the use of a vision carrier’s website, explain the connection between vision benefits and FSAs and send multiple reminders about the benefit to workers.

There are both pros and cons for employers who allow their employees to bring their dogs, cats or other furry friends into the office.

City employees and their dependents can now get sex reassignment surgery as part of their medical plan.

There are several critical steps employers need to take when moving human resource applications to a hosted environment.

All U.S. lawyers who are primary caregivers will be eligible for 20 weeks of paid time off; secondary caregivers will receive eight weeks.

Plan sponsors should encourage the use of a vision carrier’s website, explain the connection between vision benefits and flexible spending accounts and send multiple reminders about the benefit to workers.

The U.S. retirement age is rising, as the government pushes it higher and workers stay in careers longer.

All U.S. lawyers who are primary caregivers will be eligible for 20 weeks of paid time off; secondary caregivers will receive eight weeks.

Employers in the Bay State will have to provide more frequent breaks, job restructuring and modified work schedules.

Preston Rutledge, who has years of federal government service experience, ‘is not a divisive figure' and is expected to seek bipartisan input on topics such as the fiduciary rule.

The energy management company will give employees paid time off to bond with a new child, to care for a family member and to grieve a death.

Finding young talent in the advising field can be difficult, as evidenced by the growing median age of advisers, but family firms are enlisting children and grandchildren as eventual successors.

Preston Rutledge, who has years of federal government service experience, ‘is not a divisive figure' and is expected to seek bipartisan input on topics such as the fiduciary rule.

The energy management company will give employees paid time off to bond with a new child, to care for a family member and to grieve a death.

Given the uncertainty surrounding the individual market, intermittent workers will increasingly look to their place of employment for quality, payroll-deducted group benefits.

In a new book, private exchange pioneer Alan Cohen touts advantages of choice in the employer-sponsored healthcare market.