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Starting with its September 15 issue, Employee Benefit News will look a lot different – inside and out. Everyone here at EBN is very (very) excited to unveil the new look, and thankfully the wait is almost over.
At a briefing Monday, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis spoke about the need for more employment opportunities for the 9.1% of Americans out of work and the role government can play in facilitating job creation. “The priority is to connect with the businesses, so that we’re not training people for jobs that don’t exist, but for jobs that are open,” Solis said, highlighting the green industry, information technology and battery-operated cars companies as examples of industries
According to 541 SHRM members polled, the majority say a job candidates social media activity is a non-issue when it comes to hiring.
Stop the presses! If you were planning to roll out an employee survey to coincide with this falls open enrollment season, you may want to hold off, survey results show.
Garden leave, a transitional period during which a terminating employee "is paid to remain at home and out of work, but to be on call to his or her former employer for as-needed transitional services. To me, this concept is wholly interesting and if I were in a position to choose, Id prefer it to phased retirement.
Workplace walking programs sure are taking big steps forward these days. For years now, Ive been hearing about programs from Florida to Colorado walking toward better employee health armed only with a pedometer and a dream, but it seems that recently the programs are really hitting their stride, so to speak.
A new report from EAP provider ComPsych suggests that employees emotional health likely will not support healthy lifestyle changes — indicating that stress, anxiety, depression and poor social support may be hampering employees' efforts to achieve wellness goals.
Starbucks Coffee Co. has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a Texas barista who said she was fired because she was a dwarf.
With uncertain economic times having American employees highly stressed and otherwise emotionally on edge, it doesnt come as much of a surprise that a new survey from CareerBuilder shows that 34% of hiring managers say theyre placing greater emphasis on emotional intelligence when hiring and promoting employees post-recession.
The rising cost of health care will soon be reflected even more substantially in employee cost-sharing. A new National Business Group on Health survey shows that large employers anticipate their health care benefit costs to climb 7.2% in 2012. To help control those increases ahead of health care reforms Cadillac tax in 2018, the survey shows employers are planning to use a wide variety of cost-sharing strategies including CDHP premium boosts.
Strategic adviser Davia Temin says that when it comes to corporate social media, It is the Wild West out there. Every organization knows it should be doing something, but is not sure what." Temin has written a series on Forbes.com to help employers avoid the 10 donts of corporate social media efforts.
Every year, around mid-August, I think three things: I cant believe the summer is almost over. I cant believe its been almost X years since Katrina. I cant believe next month it will be X years since 9/11.
If I gave you 30 seconds to name your companys 10 top-performing employees, could you do it? If not, youre not alone unfortunately. A new survey reveals that more than one-quarter of large organizations make virtually no attempt to identify high-potential employees.
Although Im ever grateful for all of my benefits and the financial safety net they provide, flexibility is the benefit that has the biggest impact on my day-to-day life. It makes me a better mother, wife, colleague, overall person I cant say any of those things about my 401(k) plan.
A sequel to the Great Recession in the United States just two years after the downturn is not likely because demand for temporary workers, a leading indicator of both upturns and downturns, remains steady, staffing industry executives say.
My family has an iPad at home, but I rarely see it. My kids' Angry Birds marathons don't leave much time left for mom to use it. But if I did use our iPad more often, Id definitely read EBN on itnow that weve launched a new iPad app!
Although TV shows and online games makes light of the fact that U.S. adults struggle with basic elementary school concepts, the serious reality is that the chasm between the skills U.S. workers possess and the skills required for open jobs is wide, getting wider and may be partially to blame for the nations high unemployment.
According to a new survey from HighRoads, across employers ranging in size from fewer than 5,000 employees to more than 100,000 employees, 71% of respondents conduct passive versus active benefits enrollment, thus enabling employees to automatically renew most of their own plans — not the best strategy, experts say.
The Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association has issued a report calling on employers to limit leakage from 401(k) plans, Plug the Drain: 401(k) Leakage and the Impact on Retirement.
Just like I don’t understand people who place sensitivity over salary when it comes to choosing an employer, it’s a mystery to me why anyone would work during a vacation. When I go away on vacation from work, I do just that. I go away. No answering calls, no checking voicemails and if you get an email from me other than my out-of-office reply, it’s either a dire emergency or my inbox has been hacked.