Reducing clients’ health spend by taking an axe to claims
To help employers contain costs, these advisers are revamping their healthcare supply chain.
Practice and client management
Designing a benefit plan one employee at a time
GAB International’s Felipe Barganier uses workforce demographics to help clients satisfy the diverse needs of their employee populations.
Confused by the SEC’s proposed advice rule? Your questions answered
The regulator's proposal is set to remake compliance standards for brokers and advisors.
Springfield Clinic connects medical staff via APPrise mobile app
The medical facilities’ HR department retired its e-mail newsletters in favor of smartphone-based alerts.
Gamification scores employee engagement win
Gamification technology is permeating human resources, as employers use it to hire, train and engage their workforce.
iSolved HCM adds learning management system to its platform
iSolved Learn delivers flexible course design, rewards and certifications, and learning analytics to organizations using iSolved for payroll, HR and benefits.
Confused by the SEC’s proposed advice rule? Your questions answered
The regulator's proposal is set to remake compliance standards for brokers and advisors.
The 50 best places to work in 2018, firms 1-25
Bain & Company, Facebook and Google are among the nation’s top employers based on worker evaluations, according to jobs resource website Glassdoor.
Airline pilots may be next in the U.S. corporate war on unions
Anti-union advocates are watching as a battle between the Teamsters and the jet-leasing company plays out, with one non-profit group representing Flexjet employees who are pushing to get the union out.
Can financial wellness programs help women bridge the gender savings gap?
Lower incomes, longer lives and time out of the workforce means women lag men when it comes to preparing for retirement. Advisors can help.
Don’t blame the AI algorithm for biases
Employer preferences must be accounted for when using job candidate assessment support systems, says HireVue’s Nathan Mondragon.
U.S. jobless claims slump on return of New York school workers
U.S. filings for unemployment benefits plunged to the lowest level since 1969.
Benefits Think Trump’s DOL issues first opinion letters
Absent for nearly a decade, these first two opinion letters address payments under the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act and FMLA.
Leonard Feigel
Foley & Lardner
HCM platform provider Ceridian draws nods from advisers
The vendor’s Dayforce timekeeping features are said to be well suited to clients with an hourly workforce.
AI tool identifies employees eyeing the exit
Visier People provides HR managers data that can help them keep valued workers from leaving for the competition.
Brokers can cut clients’ transition time to self-funded plans in half
Employers who are considering the switch without talking to an adviser languish over the decision up to 24 months, while those working with a professional complete the process within a year.
Leveraging benefits programs to grow employers’ EBITDA
Adviser Kimberly Eckelbarger shows clients how to increase earnings by right-sizing their health plans.
Bringing a P&C mentality to healthcare benefits
Keystone Insurers’ Billy Bridwell helps clients think differently about their benefits programs.
Robust agency M&A activity reported for Q1
At least 51 employee benefit firms were acquired by other businesses during 2018’s first quarter.
U.S. jobless claims at three-week low amid tight labor market
U.S. filings for unemployment benefits fell to a three-week low, continuing a trend that indicates a tight labor market.
