Benefits

HSA Changes Add More to Consider When Picking Plans

Two elements of federal health care reform legislation passed last year that could affe...

Recruitment

Unemployed Applicants in the Hiring Process: Ensuring Proper Treatment and Documentation

Suppose unemployed applicants charge that they were not hired because of their unemploy...

HR Administration

Pro-Union Employee Trying to Organize Target Store Is Fired

About seven weeks after failing to persuade her colleagues to join a union, a Target wo...

Compliance

Nissans Return-to-Work Offer Inadequate in Comp Case

A trial court may award up to six times the employee’s medical impairment rating in add...

Benefits

Push for Transgender Rights in the Workplace Continues to Grow

Policies have been introduced by some employers specifically for transgender workers th...

Benefits

Mailing Benefits Packets? Feds Weigh the Cost and Risks of Electronic Communication

While electronic disclosure would be more efficient and cost-effective for plan sponsor...

Workplace Culture

Solving the Diversity Puzzle

Lecturing employees about diversity is one thing, but some companies are taking trainin...

Benefits

COBRA Program Subsidies to Expire at End of August

The exact number of individuals who took the subsidy isn’t known. At the time the origi...