Benefit management

“This is no longer an ancillary side business. This is at the heart of what brokers do.”

A number of employee benefit adviser veterans found new jobs and key roles inside brokerages, insurance firms and private companies.

Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual conference delved deep into innovative enrollment tips, employee engagement and hot workplace offerings.

A recent ruling in the Golden State required Starbucks to pay a worker for tasks he performed after clocking out.

It’s time for employers to lose the boring booklets and embrace innovative and entertaining ideas, Jellyvision’s Chad Schneider explained during EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

Employee Benefit Adviser’s annual conference delved deep into innovative enrollment tips, employee engagement and hot workplace offerings.

A recent ruling in the Golden State required Starbucks to pay a worker for tasks he performed after clocking out.

Most healthcare entities have adapted to the major privacy requirements but the thicket of regulations still leaves some traps for the unwary.

From overtime rules to biometric timekeeping, a patchwork of laws and regulations can make compensation benefits a tricky business for employers.

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It’s time for employers to lose the boring booklets and embrace innovative and entertaining ideas, Jellyvision’s Chad Schneider explained during EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

The firm’s 3.5 million users can sign up with an interactive platform that provides information and a dash of humor.

The program, which launched earlier this year, has helped the company “stand out in a crowd of other employers,” its benefits manager said at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

The firm’s 3.5 million users can sign up with an interactive platform that provides information and a dash of humor.

The proposed changes to health savings accounts will require employee notifications and communication efforts as well as enrollment system and payroll changes.

This does not mean that plan sponsors and committee members cannot insist on getting non-conflicted fiduciary advice; it just makes their job harder.

Another legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has companies grappling with new business strategies and tactics.

Setting up a medical coverage plan requires knowing your clients and what drives their thinking.

Plan sponsors and advisers: “It is important to realize that three or four years from now, what is done today will be examined, and it needs to be done with a good standard of care and mitigation of conflicts of interest.”