Category: Employee Group Benefits

July 25, 2018
Offering Telecommuting as a Scheduling Option
As a way to reduce commuting costs, promote work-life balance and increase the pool of qualified job candidates, many employers are offering the option of telecommuting. Telecommuting allows…

July 25, 2018
Total Rewards: Compensation and Benefits
Many employers are becoming increasingly concerned with how to sustain and recruit a high-quality workforce while also maintaining costs. What steps are you taking to make sure that you…

July 05, 2018
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Employers to Require Arbitration and Bar Class-action Lawsuits
Overview On May 21, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to bar employees from filing class-action lawsuits related to wage…

June 13, 2018
2017 Health Plan Design Benchmark Summary
One of our partners, Zywave, has presented their findings on over 40,000 employer-sponsored health plans. We would like to share this data with as a summary for benchmarking…

June 05, 2018
DOL Revises Guidance on Employee Classification
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently updated the following guidance regarding employee classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Three chapters in the Wage and Hour Division’s…

May 08, 2018
Voluntary Benefits Scorecard
Voluntary benefits might be able to help in your organization's attractiveness for potential new, qualified applicants. This scorecard is designed to help employers assess the competitiveness of their…

April 18, 2018
FAQs for Employers on Medical Child Support Orders
Overview Employers with group health plans must generally extend coverage to the children of an employee when a state court or agency issues a qualified medical child support order…

April 18, 2018
New Rules for Disability Claims Will Take Effect on April 1, 2018
Overview On January 5, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that, effective April 1, 2018, employee benefit plans must comply with new requirements for disability benefit claims. In 201…

March 21, 2018
IRS Reduces HSA Limit for Family Coverage for 2018
Overview On March 5, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2018-18 to announce changes to certain tax limits for 2018, including a reduced contribution limit for…

March 21, 2018
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) – Q&As from the IRS
Many employers offer high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) to control premium costs, and then pair this coverage with health savings accounts (HSAs) to help employees with their health care…

March 21, 2018
HSA Implementation Checklist
Offering a high deductible health plan (HDHP) along with a health savings account (HSA) is a great way to allow your employees to save pretax dollars for healthrelated…

March 15, 2018
Telemedicine
As technology has developed, so has people’s ability to overcome the traditional communication barriers of time and distance. The practice of telemedicine is a step forward in the…