Providing short-term accommodations for employees taking prescribed painkillers is one way companies can mitigate onsite accidents and other risks.

The wealth in retirement accounts could shrink by that much due to annual defaults on 401(k) loans. The projected loss is about 2.7% of the $7.8 trillion in retirement accounts.

Bright Horizons, Discover, Disney and U.S. Xpress are among a growing list of employers offering to pay for employees to get college degrees.

Issues on joint employment type liability are far from dead even though the current administration has taken a much more favorable stance on the issues compared to the prior White House.

HR professionals, take note: Training doesn’t have to be dull. By turning it into a game, employees will be eager to gain new skills.

When I first started covering the benefits industry in 2011, there was plenty to write about, and much of the focus involved gloom and doom forecasts over the newly enacted Affordable Care Act. How times have changed.

After beefing up its parental leave policy this year, Starbucks will now offer subsidized childcare for all of its U.S. employees, too.

Consumers are still not fluent in simple financial concepts, which may lead them to spend more out of pocket on healthcare.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.

Bright Horizons, Discover, Disney and U.S. Xpress are among a growing list of employers offering to pay for employees to get college degrees.

HR professionals, take note: Training doesn’t have to be dull. By turning it into a game, employees will be eager to gain new skills.

Early-morning meetings and other managerial decisions can disproportionately impact working mothers unless executives take notice.

Seniors will have to pay income taxes on a certain portion of their benefits if their taxable income plus 50% of the benefits exceed a certain threshold.

As insurance costs rise and wages remain unchanged, some employees are noticing the drain on their take-home pay.

One-third of execs say they’ve changed behavior, SHRM reports. But cases are still prevalent, and employees say HR’s ability to investigate allegations and changing workplace culture are key to curbing incidents.

Cristy Gupton, CEO of employee benefits brokerage firm Custom Benefits Solutions, helped her clients fashion health plans designed to reduce employees’ risk of opioid abuse.