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Workplace Peer Support—a Success Story

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

03 Dec 201417 Jan 2015

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 for Investing in Mental Health in Canada, more than 20% of the […]

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Ringing in a New Year of ACA Compliance

Staff

25 Nov 201418 Sep 2015

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 wrap up with a grand new year’s celebration to joyfully welcome 2015. […]

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Ready for the Other Health Act?

Lois Gleason, CEBS

18 Nov 201417 Jan 2015

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 must act on very soon. John Barlament, partner at Quarles & Brady […]

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Ebola and the Workplace

Staff

13 Nov 201404 Feb 2016

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 epidemic and numbers of confirmed cases in North America have decreased in […]

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Keys to Successful Financial Education Programs

Neil Mrkvicka

11 Nov 201417 Jan 2015

By: Neil Mrkvicka Seeing the workplace financial education trend, but not sure whether to hop on? The International Foundation’s new study titled, A Closer Look: What’s Working in Workplace Financial Education shows successful programs produce less stressed workforces and reveals best practices from […]

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Is Mental Illness the “Last Taboo”?

Julie Stich, CEBS

06 Nov 201416 Jun 2016

I had the opportunity to meet with many of our Canadian members during the 47th Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference in Calgary this past August. I wanted to find out how organizations are dealing with mental health issues among the workforce. The consensus—There has […]

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The Most Popular Benefits Question

Kelli Kolsrud, CEBS

04 Nov 201402 Feb 2015

By: Kelli Kolsrud, CEBS As I reported in an earlier blog, the second most popular member question received by information specialists during my 25-year tenure at the Foundation has been: “How much do employers require employees to pay toward the cost of […]

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Who Needs Another Policy? Maybe You Do

Chris Vogel, CEBS

31 Oct 201417 Jan 2015

By: Chris Vogel, CEBS It’s too bad board policies fall under the category of “blah, blah, blah” for some folks. Like many attorneys who work with boards of trustees, Rachel R. Parisi, CEBS, must see a few stifled yawns when she mentions […]

Employee Benefits Wellness

Sitting Cessation Programs?

Neil Mrkvicka

24 Oct 201413 May 2019

By: Neil Mrkvicka Workers need to quit a nasty habit they have developed at work. Is it time for employers to take a stand on this growing health hazard? You’ve probably already heard or seen the Sitting Is the New Smoking research—If not, […]

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Two November ACA Deadlines Loom

Lois Gleason, CEBS

21 Oct 201417 Jan 2015

By: Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Updates: On November 14, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was extending the deadline for submitting 2014 enrollment counts for the transitional reinsurance contributions until 11:59 p.m. on December 5, 2014. the deadline was originally […]