Benefit strategies

Twenty standout advisers ages 35 and younger are taking charge of the future of employee benefits, determined to reduce costs and improve client outcomes.

The insurance company will begin offering its employees six weeks of time off to bond with a new child.

Licensed insurance professionals can assist human resource professionals with a number of election period tasks, while also answering important employee questions.

These alterations can involve adjustments to the individual plan benefits, plan eligibility and new state and federal laws.

Employers will need to remain up-to-date on salary history bans, equal income standards and transparency provisions.

From workplace sexual harassment to an ever-changing regulatory landscape, employers should remain vigilant and compliant in the coming year.

Cost and lack of understanding are the top reasons employers don’t provide perks to their workers.

Almost half of employers surveyed by Willis Towers Watson already have or plan to make changes by the end of 2018 or into 2019.

Form 1094 and 1095 series returns for 2017, due in the early months of 2018, are not included in tax filing and penalty relief that the IRS has extended to individuals.

Machine learning allows human resources professionals to deemphasize tedious aspects of the job while allowing them to pull a greater amount of insight from the results.