Word on Benefits Blog
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 >
Brenda Hofmann
January 16, 2015
Employee Benefits, Employee Benefits Survey
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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 >
Justin Held, CEBS
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
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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 >
Ann Godsell, CEBS
January 9, 2015
CEBS (Certified Employee Benefit Specialist), Education, Employee Benefits
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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 >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
December 23, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care
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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 >
Julie Stich, CEBS
December 15, 2014
Employee Benefits, Multiemployer, Pensions, Regulatory, RetirementCromnibus, MPRA, multiemployer, Multiemployer Pension Reform Act, pension
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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 >
Justin Held, CEBS
December 10, 2014
Employee Benefits, Financial Education, Financial Wellness, Flexible Work Options, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Retirement, Wellness, Work Life Balance
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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 >
Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS
December 3, 2014
Canada, Disease Management, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Mental Health, Wellness
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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 >
Ann Godsell, CEBS
November 25, 2014
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Benefits, Health Care, Regulatory
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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 >
Lois Gleason, CEBS
November 18, 2014
Employee Benefits, Health Care, Human Resources (HR), Mental Health
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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 >
Ann Godsell, CEBS
November 13, 2014
Health Care, Human Resources (HR)
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