Employee benefits

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.

This year’s class of top women advisers understands how these virtues can make a positive impact on the benefits industry.

While loyalty and engagement is a complex matter, employers must find the right balance of perks that workers want and will use.

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

An update on the health insurance marketplace aims to ease the burden of enrollment for small businesses.

Employers are often looking for a benefits consultant to help them navigate healthcare, explains Questige’s John Sbrocco.

EBN and EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends, employer strategies and employee engagement.

Premiums appear to be stabilizing finally and even dropping in some states.

When considering the insurance model, employers should do their due diligence and have documentation supporting the decision they’ve reached.

Today, people are factoring finances in their decision to become parents — or not. Benefit teams can help ease the minds of employees who want to take on the responsibility of raising children.

Social influencers shared moments from EBN and EBA’s annual conference, where employers like Activision Blizzard and Walmart talked about how they’re approaching their benefits strategies.

The model notice that employers must provide before participants receive an “eligible rollover distribution” from a qualified 401(a), a 403(b), or 457(b) plan has changed.

EBN and EBA’s annual conference delved deep into hot benefit trends, employer strategies and employee engagement.

When designing and administering a severance arrangement, employers can take definitive steps to ensure that the arrangement is compliant.

The outrageous prices for exclusive medications are crippling our health plans and terrorizing families in pain.

New technologies, greater competition and rising prices are complicating the role of today’s benefit brokers. How do they cope?

Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for warehouse workers and other hourly employees.

Multiple-job holders made up 5.1% of the total employed in August, and the share has been hovering around 5% since the expansion began in mid-2009.

“It’s important to engage individuals across the organization to establish successful mental health initiatives,” says telecom Bell's senior health consultant.

When designing and administering a severance arrangement, employers can take definitive steps to ensure that the arrangement is treated as an ERISA plan.