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Benefits Think Scone: Schumer, Kohl say down with debit cards
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Benefits Think Sites We Love: The Gig
As the Benefits Group's resident Gen Y staffer, I also seem to be the one most interested in learning about what's being written on the Millenials. In addition to some recent coverage (podcasts, articles, and even a Web seminar), I'm absolutely in love with Nadira A. Hira's blog from Fortune Magazine…
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: EBN honors ’08 Benny winners
Who needs Brangelina news when you have the Benny winners? EBN is proud to announce the recipients of the 2008 Benny Awards, given by EBN and corporate sponsor VSP. But for people who want the Brangelina news, click here.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day
Have you tried to engage your Gen Y workers in retirement planning and education only to be told they'll TTYL? If trying to create effective retirement messages to reach this generation of texters doesn't have you LOL, click here for help.
Benefits Think News You Can Use: U.S. slides on global ranking of health care systems
Here´s some news that´ll hurt your heart: The Commonwealth Fund´s latest ranking of global health care systems finds that although the United States spends twice as much per capita on health care, the nation ranks well below other industrialized nations in many areas of health care delivery, including…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Retiree medical, 401(k) matches, pay raises fall victim to economy
It´s an unbelievably difficult day to be a retiree at GM, as the automaker made news once again for cutting benefits. This time, the company says it will eliminate retiree medical coverage for salaried workers age 65 and older. Although GM isn´t the first – nor the last – employer to eliminate…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day
Changes to federal HEART legislation will affect how employers structure retirement plans for veterans. Click here for information on the amendments and how to plan for implementing them in 2009.
Benefits Think Big employers bearish on medtour
New research from the National Business Group on Health says big employers aren't all that excited or optimistic about medical tourism. There are too many "ifs" and the employers surveyed are just too savvy to be buffeted by the hype is how Helen Darling (pictured at right above), president of the NBGH,…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: How long do employees consider retirement decisions?
Despite all of your benefits communications about retirement, the time when workers begin thinking seriously about retirement and actually doing so is pretty short, shows new data from EBRI. Twenty-two percent of the surveyed retirees report they first began thinking seriously about retiring only six…
Benefits Think Scone: Was ‘opting out’ ever in?
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Benefits Think Tip of the Day
What are the five employee benefits that must be protected at all costs during an economic downturn? Find out , and get tips on how to even add benefits in tough fiscal times at ebn.benefitnews.com.
Benefits Think Wish You Were Here: Utah adopts four-day work week
In addition to great skiing, Utah now has a new attraction: a four-day workweek. Known as the "Working 4 Utah" initiative, about 17,000 of state´s 24,000 government workers will work only Monday through Thursday, effective the first week in August. Although government hours will be extended from…
Benefits Think News You Can’t Use: Citigroup lays off thousands, begins HR exec search
It won´t affect your day-to-day business, but it´s interesting nonetheless to note that despite layoffs numbering in the thousands, Citigroup plans to hire a new HR executive to focus on training for the company´s 38,000 workers in its North American consumer banking division. In an economy that…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Public pensions sound, boosted by oil profits
Are pensions going like gangbusters or headed down the drain? It seems every day brings different news. Today, apparently it´s somewhere in the middle, at least for public plans. A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that overall the nation´s state and local DB plans are "reasonably…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: SMBs unhappy with Washington
News You Can Use: Small business owners are dissatisfied with the current state of the federal government, finds a poll released this morning by American Management Services. 81% feel we are in an economic recession78% feel economic stimulus checks are useless86% say the federal government is doing…
Benefits Think Wellness: Where’s the ROI?
I just returned from Blue Cross Blue Shield's press briefing "How America's Employers are Promoting Health and Wellness Programs in the Workplace," and it's really sparked some thinking.
Benefits Think One thing that came up in the podcast with the PWC…
One thing that came up in the podcast with the PWC folks was that other countries seem to be going for the stick. I think CNN did a piece recently on how Japanese companies are measuring waistlines and making life miserable and costly for folks that have too much pudge. The employer community has gotten…
Benefits Think I’m always shocked at the low numbers when it come…
I'm always shocked at the low numbers when it comes to wellness participation. Does anyone have thoughts about the old carrot v. stick idea to get people to participate? It sounds like you're advocating that this is something people do to save costs in the long run — which sounds like a good idea in…