Tag: health care

February 10, 2022

Time is running out for health care workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to be fully vaccinated. Despite blocking President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Centers for […]

June 29, 2021

The post-pandemic race is on to attract new employees—and as HR and finance executives both know, the solution can’t always be higher wages. Fortunately, other factors still mean a lot to jobseekers in the revived economy. Casual Fridays and office […]

October 21, 2020

An employee informs you that she recently received a cancer diagnosis. She is afraid and overwhelmed. The diagnosis is a lot to process. The complexity of navigating doctor appointments, treatments, transportation and child care amplifies the stress. Care advocates and […]

February 13, 2020

Every business has different needs and challenges. However, understanding the landscape of those challenges on a national level can be of great value to any HR professionals anticipating the next volley of challenges coming their way. Recent research by Paychex […]

February 5, 2020

President Donald Trump called attention to the economy, paid family leave, health care, job training and second-chance hiring in his annual State of the Union (SOTU) address on Feb. 4. It was the last SOTU address of the current presidential […]

February 5, 2020

In health care, acronyms abound—ACA, FSA, FMLA, CDHP, HSA, etc. It can be a bit overwhelming. One of the lesser known but still important healthcare-related acronyms is HRA. It stands for health reimbursement account (or health reimbursement arrangement), and it’s […]

November 8, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new smoking ban took effect on Oct. 1, prohibiting all patients and non-staff from smoking on VA hospital premises. In January the ban will extend to employees. The smoke-free policy was created to initiate a […]

September 24, 2019

The workforce is changing as Baby Boomers continue to retire and Generation Z starts taking their place, and with a “changing of the guards” comes a change in the types of benefits you use to attract and retain top talent. […]

June 20, 2019

Few people realize that the notion of a workplace social contract came about accidentally nearly 80 years ago as the result of an executive order on wage controls issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cutting-edge companies at the time then […]

May 6, 2019

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, fewer people are uninsured but the number of underinsured has spiked, especially among people covered by employer-sponsored health plans, according to a recent study. An estimated 44 million people who […]

March 27, 2019

Vision care benefits have become a mainstay of the employer benefits package. “Virtually all companies now offer vision,” said Peter DeBellis, head of the total rewards practice for Bersin by Deloitte in Washington, D.C. “It is table stakes, especially for […]

January 22, 2019

Company leadership, including the C-suite and HR managers, may first think of the bottom line when it comes to health insurance and employee benefits. But they could be missing the bigger picture. The broader view includes the value of investment […]

January 3, 2019

1. Account-based health plans will create buzz. Large employers should soon be able to offer health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) that allow employees to purchase individual coverage for themselves instead of receiving employer-sponsored group coverage. Legislative proposals have been introduced already […]

October 1, 2018

The bar for HR communication has historically been set pretty low. Fifteen years ago, confusing, one-size-fits-all content was the status quo — an annoying but inevitable fact of corporate life. In 2018, this is no longer the case. Employees now […]

February 8, 2018

One in four adults in the US suffers from some form of mental illness, mostly depression and anxiety disorders. 11% of Americans take an antidepressant. Chances are, someone you work with is depressed. The cost of depression in lost productivity […]