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I'll always remember where I was when the news first came in, and I know you will too. Nothing since has been the same, and in the 3,000 days since, I know you've taken steps to protect your employees, information and facilities that you likely never thought necessary or possible on Sept. 10, 2001.
Those alliterative pearls of wisdom come from Melissa Hubler, group leader of payroll & benefits at Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc., and EBNs 2009 VSP GetFit Benny Award winner. I recently sat down with Hubler and her four fellow Benny honorees to hear the valuable life lessons the recession has taught them personally and professionally and what items they would recommend for stocking a recession survival kit.
To be fair, no one really said that – but I just couldn’t resist. It’s not every day you get to write a headline like that. Anyway, “You Have an Ugly Baby” actually is a book by Daniel Rickard that takes a new look at the health care quandary by focusing on prevention and wellness.
Okay, so, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that, according to the latest data from Mercer, if employers make no changes to health benefits in 2010, they’ll see cost rise by nearly 9%. The good news is that most of you have no intention of doing nothing, and in fact plan to hold cost increases to about 5.9% next year.
I’ll admit that if given the option, I prefer to release my stress on the treadmill rather than tree pose. But there’s no doubt that yoga is great for mind and body health, and much kinder on the knees. So, I’m happy to give a shout out to the Health and Human Services Department for designating September as National Yoga Month.
When it comes to President Obama’s message on health care reform, I’d say things are a bit worse than “off track a little bit,” but I definitely credit Adam Bruckman, president and CEO of Digital Insurance, for his tact. Bruckman is one of the pros that EBA’s Elizabeth Galentine cornered for their input on what the president needs to tell the nation tonight in his televised address to Congress to get health care reform outta the
If you were out enjoying the Labor Day weekend, you may have missed President Obama’s weekly radio address (now also a video address) on Sunday. If you weren’t tuned in, you didn’t hear that the president – clearly unafraid of reworking our nation’s largest benefits systems – is setting his sights on retirement accounts.
You bet they do, perhaps me first among them! And this is the week to celebrate it. ADP – provider of many things HR, payroll and benefits-related – leads the nation in National Payroll Week (Sept. 7-11), which aims to educate American workers about paychecks, the payroll withholding system and other payroll-driven benefits by offering tips to help maximize payday.
It's Labor Day weekend, and I intend to spend it giving myself a hearty pat on the back for the tough but triumphant labor I've put in this year. I hope each of you pros will do the same. It's been a difficult year, to say the least, and it's still not over. But before you dive headlong into the fall, open enrollment and the chaos of the holiday season, take some time to take
As Labor Day approaches, new survey results from Adecco show that working is not really a labor of love these days, as many are expressing dissatisfaction with several aspects of their jobs, including their salary, relationships with bosses and coworkers and their company's retention efforts. Adecco finds that that two-thirds (66%) of American workers are unsatisfied with their compensation as a result of pay cuts, lack of bonuses or stagnant salaries. A significant number of
I’m always looking out for you, DD readers, so I’ll pass along some intel from my moles in the data services sphere. With pay cuts and freezes having practically the whole nation on ice, new survey results on HR compensation show some salary warmth in the labor relations function and HR pay overall is up in the health care sector.
Elizabeth Galentine my esteemed colleage, favorite gumshoe reporter and Managing Editor of Employee Benefit Adviser recently rounded up a panel of benefits pros to discuss what comes next for health care reform, now that Sen. Edward Kennedy, the efforts biggest Democratic champion, has passed away. Its one of those times you wish you could be a fly on the wall. But thanks to E.G., you dont have to. Read on, and then share your
I know you’d never be able to tell it from their savings rates, but your employees actually are quite happy with their retirement plan. A new Watson Wyatt survey finds that 54% of employees are satisfied with their company’s retirement program, and 29% even admit that they wouldn’t save for retirement without it.
It's hard to believe that four years has gone by since Hurricane Katrina rendered destruction and devastation on New Orleans and neighboring Gulf Coast regions. As the last weekend nation marked the anniversary of the storm's landfall, the city continues its efforts to rebuild and move forward. The resilience and determination of New Orleans residents and businesses can be a template for your own work as employers nationwide strive to rebuild from the recession.
With all the bleeding the recession has caused in defined contribution plans, it can be easy to forget that defined benefit plans have been recession ravaged as well. DB sponsors are taking steps to stop the bleeding, according to the pros at Watson Wyatt, undergoing what one consultant called a 'seismic shift from business as usual.'
I know that the budget ax has been swinging furiously all year to help companies survive the recession you may have had to duck out of its path yourself at some point. And with near-record joblessness still hurting the economy, you may be tempted to let the ax swing and chop wherever it will, so long as it's not in your direction. I understand and can relate to that mentality.
When I think of the 'Wild West,' I imagine utter lawlessness and duels at dawn, not kind phlebotomists saying, 'Just a little stick.' But when it comes to worksite wellness screenings, the folks at Summit Health say the 'Wild West is alive and well.' Turns out, the lawlessness I imagined can be applied to onsite health screenings, Summit says. While national and local regulations cover finger sticks and blood draws, no single organization or regulatory body
I love ranked lists — the top 100 movies of all time, top 20 Beatles songs ever, 1000 places to see before you die — but this one has actual professional value. Moder Healthcare magazine has released its annual list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. Now in its eighth year, the mag puts President Obama at the top of the 2009 list, followed by several of his close friends and foes on health
Remember swine flu? The potential pandemic that this spring had people walking around in surgical masks and calling to close our border with Mexico? Although the furor has died down, the swine flu threat has not, according to health experts. In fact, public health officials are predicting a resurgence of swine flu. As a result, legal eagles Ed Foulke and Howard Mavity, co-chairs of the workplace safety & catastrophe management practice Group at law firm Fisher
My colleague and I wanted to experience for ourselves a true health care reform town hall, though we were admittedly a little frightened after watching highlights of past meetings on the news. Nevertheless, we gathered our courage and set out, visiting one such meeting Tuesday night near the EBN/EBA office. Despite volunteers handing out George Washington’s code of civility to everyone in the audience, the Reston, Va., town hall got a little heated, to say the