Shedding Pounds, Premium Dollars       August 19, 2010
Feature: Last year the Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board decided to try the carrot approach to encourage employees to undergo wellness screenings and obtain medical help. Now all employees who are screened receive a $25 monthly discount ...
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United Technologies Moves to Cover Adult Children ...       May 17, 2010
The high-tech product and service provider to the aerospace and building industries says the extension includes adult children up to age 26 not currently enrolled in its plans.
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Cigna's Pilot Program Tries to Stop Disability ...       May 14, 2010
Feature: Employees are approached to enroll in the pilot study, called the Absence Prediction and Prevention Program, if they are assessed to be facing at least a three-times-higher risk than the typical employee of going on short-term ...
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Many Plans Fail Health Reform Affordability Test       May 3, 2010
News: The likelihood of employers offering unaffordable coverage is inversely related to employer size, with smaller employers having a higher percentage of workers paying more than 9.5 percent of household income.
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Benefits Managers Eye Impact of Reforms | Human ...       March 29, 2010
Some benefits experts also are hopeful that provisions aimed at transforming the health care delivery system and emphasizing wellness and prevention could pay dividends for employers.
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Use of Temporary Workers Also Invites Exposures ...       March 17, 2010
Feature: Attorneys say temporary workers hired through staffing agencies generally are considered to be employed by both the agency and company, even though the agency pays the salary. (3/17/2010)
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Study Finds 401(k) Accounts Have Recovered ...       February 19, 2010
The average 401(k) account balance was $64,200 last year, up 27.9 percent from 2008 but still down from $69,200 at the end of 2007, a new study finds.
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10 Ways to Find Dollars in Workers' Comp Loss Run ...       February 2, 2010
... themselves a road map for finding and recapturing workers' comp dollars.
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DOL Budget Increases Enforcement Funding Amid ...       February 1, 2010
The agency is beefing up its enforcement staff in the Wage and Hour Division and OSHA. It also is funding new training initiatives. A Republican congressman decried the approach as one designed to 'demonize' employers.
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Obama Looks to Ramp Up Retirement Savings ...       January 27, 2010
Currently, 78 million working Americans, about half the workforce, lack employer-based retirement plans, the administration said.
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Despite Political Shift in Congress, Employers ...       January 20, 2010
The potential defeat of a health care reform bill might give employers what they wished for, but it would be a Pyrrhic victory if efforts to control costs are lost along with the current legislation.
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COBRA Subsidy Extension Complicates Benefits ...       January 4, 2010
Employers and their COBRA administrators will likely have to deal with possible overpayments and new notifications to beneficiaries.
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Pay Czar Says AIG Retention Bonuses OK for ...       December 14, 2009
The awards, which AIG called 'legally binding contracts,' were outlined in a broader report by Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's special master for executive compensation.
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Labor Department Issues New COBRA Subsidy ...       December 2, 2009
One condition--not widely understood among the general public--could result in employees who are laid off this month not being eligible for the COBRA subsidy. That could happen if employers allow laid-off employees to remain covered in the ...
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IBM to Pick Up the Tab for Workers' Primary Care ...       November 9, 2009
Big Blue's move to pay all costs bucks current trends. Long considered one of the more innovative employers when it comes to its health care benefit programs, IBM's latest initiative is part of the company's ongoing advocacy of wellness among ...
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Public Option Back at Center Stage as Health Care ...       November 2, 2009
After months of work, House Democratic leaders last week finished cobbling together a 1,900-page reform bill, pulling provisions from measures that three House committees passed this summer while amending, dropping and adding others, including a ...
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House Democrat Tells Medical Students Health Care ...       October 27, 2009
Addressing a regional meeting of the American Medical Student Association, Rep. Jan Schakowsky says health care reform legislation in the House has the correct architecture that will allow lawmakers 'to hang improvements on it as we go along.'
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New York Health Care Workers to Fight Flu-Shot ...       October 15, 2009
Four nurses announced their plan after they were told they would lose their jobs in November if they did not get the vaccine.
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Weakened Individual Health Care Mandate a Cause ...       October 14, 2009
The reserved endorsement offered by the lone Republican backer could summarize the caution many employers also are taking toward the Senate Finance Committee's reform bill.
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