Employee benefits

Benny Award winner Raymond Eames launches a walking program at SKF and achieves 9-to-1 return on investment

Aéropostale educates mothers-to-be using social media.

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption announces its top 100 adoption friendly workplaces.

How to identify and deal with bullies in the workplace.

Consultant Timothy Wojcik maintains the decision to pay or play is a strategic one that will affect fixed costs as well as employee morale.

Four employers receive iCOMM Awards for the best in internal communications.

Smartphones are a good tool to engage employees in wellness programs but access challenges remain.

Meeting the legal definition of the parent-child relationship doesn’t always mean that beneficiary plan standards have been met as well.

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan portrayed Barack Obama as a shallow president who has failed to live up to his promises, in a convention speech also infused with an optimism reminiscent of Obama’s 2008 “yes we can” campaign theme.

The Federal Reserve chairman says ‘the economic health of our nation’ benefits greatly the more informed the general public is about their own financial decisions.

CareerBuilder says more employees are reporting being bullied and claim that HR is doing nothing about it.

Defined contribution plan participants have proved woefully uninformed about their funds, and clearer jargon and presentations could help.

A new survey shows that, despite rising costs, more companies plan to keep health care on the menu for active employees.

The majority of baby boomers and Gen Xers appear to be looking at their retirement years through rose-colored glasses. More than three in four feel confident they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, even though nearly 40% of baby boomers and about two-thirds of Gen Xers have less than $100,000 in retirement savings. Moreover, a worrisome percentage —21.7% of baby boomers and 27.8% of Gen Xers — has no retirement savings at all. The grim statistics are the highlights of a report released by the Insured Retirement Institute.

Even as market uncertainty persists, employees using Bank of America Merrill Lynch's automatic 401(k) savings plans are showing they want to stay the course when it comes to positive savings behavior, according to the firm's latest quarterly data.

The Republican National Convention adopted a 2012 party platform that advocates changing how U.S. senior citizens receive health care by shifting Medicare from a defined-benefit entitlement to a defined-contribution plan.

By happy coincidence, a 30-minute lunch break is exactly as long as the minimum amount of time government guidelines recommend adults spend on physical activity.

Lifetime solutions should be coming soon as more annuities find their way into defined contribution plans, often via target date funds.

Risk is rising and asset return dropping for corporate benefit pension plans, according to new research by Mercer.

To more effectively communicate with the various age groups they serve, health insurance providers need to reexamine their approaches to billing and claim information, according to research from Pitney Bowes Inc.