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In other words, put Thursday night on your calendar. It's the season premiere. Here's a taste www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDYkcAyjls
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Benefits Think News You Can Use: FMLA advice from the pros
Benefit managers listened with rapt attention to the morning session "Maximize the effectiveness of your in-house FMLA management program" by Linda Southard, president of Work & Well.
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Gradsâ salaries spike 7.6%
I´m not sure I understand. New graduates – who have little experience and are most likely to leave your organization after a year or two – are seeing the highest salary increases? Apparently, according to a new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which shows starting…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day
Giving Monday's keynote address at EBN's Benefit Forum & Expo, Newt Gingrich offered a tip that he urged attendees to take home and teach to their teams a turn of phrase that he believes can change the way they operate. "Train people to say 'Yes, if' rather than 'No, because,'" Gingrich put simply,…
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: Kondracke predicts Nov. win for Obama
Addressing attendees Sunday at EBN's 21st annual Benefits Forum & Expo, keynote speaker Morton Kondracke handicapped the 2008 presidential election.
Benefits Think Overheard At: BFE speakers go off the cuff
At the 21st annual Benefits Forum & Expo, EBN's annual conference, attendees were treated to not only knowledgeable but humorous keynote addresses from Roll Call Editor Morton Kondracke and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who spoke to benefits stakeholders Sunday and Monday, respectively. Among…
Benefits Think Scone: Employers snatching ‘low-hanging fruit’ in health care reform effort
Greetings from National Harbor, Md., at the 21st annual Benefits Forum & Expo, where EBN opened its annual conference on a high note with Morton Kondracke, editor of Roll Call, who hasn't lost his knack for blunt honesty that he honed as a television political commentator over several decades.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Grey’s Anatomy is teaching your employees
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, McDreamy and McSteamy are reliable sources of medical information. Their new report, using Grey's Anatomy as a model, finds that viewers have dramatically increased knowledge of some basic health information after seeing it on the show – and retain the information…
Benefits Think BREAKING NEWS
We're Twittering away the Benefit Forum and Expo. Follow us at Twitter.com/Benefitnews to get all the details. Send us a direct message or note if you've got a specific question for a presenter.
Benefits Think Stay tuned for live coverage of the Benefits Forum + Expo
The Daily Diversion doesn't want you to miss a single minute of the excitement at our upcoming Benefits Forum and Expo, held Sunday through Tuesday in DC's National Harbor Complex.
Benefits Think Wish You Were Here: Free & Clear
Today, Free & Clear has announced a new weight management program. Called Mind & Body, the program allows participants to master eight "essential practices" to help combat obesity.
Benefits Think Wish You Were Here:Benefits Forum + Expo
Today's "Wish You Were Here" takes a different twist. Employee Benefit News packing a bag and heading to their 21st annual conference this weekend, and we want you to come too.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day
Determined to spur HSA adoption come hell or high water, the government has launched a site to educate small employers about the accounts and their merits. To learn more, visit www.hsa.gov.
Benefits Think My generalists always used to complain because I m…
My generalists always used to complain because I made them personally collect time cards for their groups. It wasn't that I thought it was a good use of their time but everybody knew them and had at least one weekly non- threatening interaction with someone from HR. A lot of questions got answered during…
Benefits Think I have to agree with your article. As a former vic…
I have to agree with your article. As a former vice president of human resources, building trusting relationships with our internal customers was a challenging task. Although I tried to create an unconventional team that was knowledgeable and friendly, employee perceptions of HR from prior companies was…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Easing employeesâ market jitters
The market is in turmoil with no end in sight, which no doubt is raising questions and anxiety among employees.
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Blind leading the blind on 401(k) fees?
Hoo, boy! From the "how-can-that-be?" files, new survey results from the Spectrem Group reveal that one in 10 plan sponsors (thankfully, a minority) believe they pay no fees for their retirement plan. If plans sponsors don´t know about these fees, how can they educate investors who need desperately…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day
For hiring managers: Who needs costly background check products when there´s MySpace and Facebook? CareerBuilder finds that 22% of hiring managers use social networking sites to check up on potential employees, up from 11%; in 2006. For job hunters: Clean up your online presence; 34% of respondents…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Working conditions affect mental state
Guess what? Poor working conditions are bound to adversely impact your mental state and health, shows new data in a report from the World Health Organization.
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Best of both worlds key to health reform
The latest issue of Health Affairs features an article that the key to reforming the nation´s health care system is not a red solution or blue solution, but rather a purple solution that blends the best components of Barack Obama´s and John McCain´s proposals. Read the full article here (as well…