On Monday, January 19, 45% of employers nationwide will recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day by providing a paid holiday for their employees. The Foundation’s recent Employee Benefit Survey 2014 found… Read more >
January 16, 2015 Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Survey 4 Read more >
By: Justin Held, CEBS Do organizations in the West offer more generous health care benefits? Are those in the South more likely to offer automatic features in their defined contribution… Read more >
January 12, 2015 401(k) Plans, Defined Benefit (DB) Plans, Defined Contribution (DC) Plans, Disability Benefits, Education, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Survey, Paid Time Off (PTO), Voluntary Benefits 0 Read more >
By: Ann Godsell, CEBS Is 2015 the year you plan to add the coveted CEBS designation to your name? A new year brings a new sense of motivation—Run with it. But before… Read more >
January 9, 2015 CEBS (Certified Employee Benefit Specialist), Education, Employee Benefits 0 Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS In 2015, Affordable Care Act (ACA) transition relief allows applicable large employers (ALE) to avoid one of the ACA penalties (the one that could cost employers $2,000 per… Read more >
December 23, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care 0 Read more >
By: Julie Stich, CEBS On December 13, 2014, Congress passed the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) as part of the federal spending “cromnibus” bill, the Consolidated and Further Continuing… Read more >
December 15, 2014 Employee Benefits, Multiemployer, Pensions, Regulatory, Retirement 0 Read more >
By: Justin Held, CEBS, and Neil Mrkvicka This week, the International Foundation is releasing Employee Benefits Survey: 2014, its fourth survey in the benchmarking series. As members of the Foundation’s Research Department, we… Read more >
December 10, 2014 Employee Benefits, Financial Education, Financial Wellness, Flexible Work Options, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Retirement, Wellness, Work Life Balance 0 Read more >
By: Kathy Bergstrom If families and caregivers are included, mental health problems and illnesses affect almost everyone in some way. According to the Mental Health Commission Canada, Making the Case… Read more >
December 3, 2014 Canada, Disease Management, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Mental Health, Wellness 0 Read more >
Holiday season commences this week. So begin the shopping lists, party planning and a generally festive feeling in the air. As it all comes to an end, most of us will… Read more >
November 25, 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory 0 Read more >
By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS The Affordable Care Act is big … and complicated … but there is another complicated act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), that health administrators… Read more >
November 18, 2014 Employee Benefits, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Mental Health 0 Read more >
By: Ann Godsell, CEBS As Ebola becomes less prominent in headline news, it’s easy to bank on the deadly virus becoming a distant memory. While the threat of an Ebola… Read more >
November 13, 2014 Health Care, Human Resources (HR) 0 Read more >