Employee benefits

About half of mid-sized and large companies plan to expand personal financial planning and increase retirement funds, according to a new Willis Towers Watson report.

Employees should consider that state laws may differ on who may be legally recognized as a beneficiary's spouse and thus whether their partner would be entitled to spousal benefits.

Build an education program, perform an objective review of investments and benchmark features are a few of the activities advisers should encourage now.

Using lowest-cost share classes, performing an annual investment fund review and distributing required fee notices are among best practices.

President James Klein spoke with EBN about the organization’s agenda, now that Cadillac tax implementation is delayed another two years.

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.

The state is the latest in a string of cities and municipalities to bar questions of past pay.

The DOL is turning back the clock in a move that it believes will provide clarity for employers who seek to comply with the FLSA.

Collecting cost data and offering consumer-oriented tools to employees can help firms expose the widespread problem of variation in medical price and quality.

While the funds are ideal for certain people, they don't address important retirement considerations, such as the cost of funding a comfortable living and a person’s savings rate.

The problem can result in financial burdens and lost productivity for employees, but companies can provide support services and tools, including an advocacy service through the benefits plan.

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.

There have been some modest attempts in the past few years to shore up and fill in gaps in this country's haphazard system of retirement savings.

Home Depot is joining the parade of companies offering perks to U.S. employees after the federal tax overhaul.

Both new moms and dads at the financial services firm will be eligible for 16 weeks of time off.

Younger employees could be too confident in the abilities of automated retirement investment tools, study finds.

Ex-president of Eli Lilly's U.S. arm, Alex Azar, was confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, setting a permanent replacement for Tom Price.

President James Klein spoke with EBA about the organization’s agenda, now that Cadillac tax implementation is delayed another two years.

Mercer is No.1 on EBA-miEdge list of large-group advisers for the fourth straight year, translating jumbo employer success to companies with 100-5,000 employees.

Engaged savers, specifically those who are near the end of work, deserve an appropriate spectrum of risk options.