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- Innovations In Return To Work
- Crafting lasting solutions to workers' comp problems will require a return to the core reason compensation is provided to injured workers: as a bridge to make ends meet until they are able to return to work. Workers' compensation problems are making headlines. Behind those headlines are real problems: injured men...
- White papers 2003-02-09
- Pre-employment Personality Testing
- If they are mathematically sound, legally defensible, and predictive of a person’s job performance—is it any surprise that personality tests are more and more a part of hiring? No one knows for sure how many employers use tests, but the number is growing, according to professionals in the field of...
- White papers 2003-01-19
- Retiree Health Benefits Said to Be at Risk
- This case study by the employee benefits consulting firm Watson Wyatt World finds that large employers that typically pay more than half their retirees’ medical expenses will be paying less than 10 percent by 2031. Read the article to know why the retiree health benefits are said to be at...
- White papers 2002-12-10
- On-site Health Clinics Offer Convenience
- The article discusses that organizations are spending more time in collecting money from insurance companies than they were on actually focusing on what the patient needed to have done The better way was Whole Health Management, which creates and staffs on-site medical facilities for businesses across the country. There’s been...
- White papers 2002-11-18
- Workplace Gossip and Workers’ Compensation
- Must an employer pay workers’ comp claim based on psychiatric injuries suffered by an employee from workplace gossip regarding the employee’s personal life? Workers’ compensation is regulated at the state level. Except for federal employees and certain maritime and railroad workers, there is no national system for compensating people injured...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Workers' Compensation Compliance
- Workers’ compensation is regulated at the state level. Except for federal employees and certain maritime and railroad workers, there is no national system for compensating people injured on the job. State laws define the types of injuries that are compensable, set the levels of cash benefits, establish waiting periods before...
- White papers 2002-08-29
- EO Surveys & Affirmative Action
- The EO survey requires information regarding hires, promotions, terminations, and compensation is sent out to approximately 50,000 federal contractor facilities each year. The survey is intended to engage the federal contractor community in the process of self-analysis, i.e., to review their affirmative action programs and remove any vestiges of discrimination,...
- White papers 2002-07-24
- New Law Requires 401(k) Blackout Notices
- The newly enacted corporate governance reform law includes provisions requiring notices of 401k blackout periods, bars directors and executives from trading employer stock during blackouts, increases criminal penalties for ERISA violations, and prohibits personal loans to directors and executives. The article says that administrator is required to provide a notice...
- White papers 2002-07-31
- Employee Company Ineligible for Unemployment Benefits
- In a case with national significance, the New York Court of Appeals recently held that telecommuting employees should apply for unemployment benefits in the state in which they live, not where the employer is located. The highest court in New York is blazing the trail in the world of the...
- White papers 2002-07-19
- Young Workers Rejecting Health Insurance
- In Alaska, as everywhere else, small businesses struggle to provide health insurance. But the Anchorage Daily News reports that employers there who manage to provide it are getting a surprising response from many of their young employees: No thanks. These workers have two reasons for rejecting insurance. Read the article...
- White papers 2002-06-05
- Employers Seek Affordable Benefits To Assist
- Besides accepting more personal responsibility to plan their own aging, the employees need to become much more proactive in preparing for their aging parents–and so will their employers. Why should employers consider this their problem? Because middle-aged workers, particularly women age 40 and above, are faced with increased responsibilities to...
- White papers 2002-05-22
- DOL Expands Electronic Delivery of Benefit Plan Information
- The Department of Labor DOL has issued final regulations that widen and deepen the proposed safe harbor for the electronic delivery of ERISA disclosures. The safe harbor now includes electronic delivery of plan information to sites beyond the workplace and now applies to many more disclosures, not just summary plan...
- White papers 2002-04-11
- Money Purchase Plans: Time for a Change?
- The article says that if you've decided that your money purchase plan no longer meets your corporate goals, you have the option of terminating it or merging it into an existing profit sharing or 401k plan. There are two primary advantages to termination. One is the fact that you reduce...
- White papers 2002-04-15
- Tax Bill Speeds Up 401(k) Vesting
- The article says that one of the few pension reforms in the just enacted tax cut bill that will directly benefit many employees is the requirement that employer matching contributions to 401k plan vest more quickly. The new increases in the limits on 401k contributions are not likely to effect...
- White papers 2001-06-15
- Using Employee Opinions Effectively When Designing HR Programs
- For years, many organizations focused on how to become the "employer of choice" to attract and retain the best talent. Articles abounded on how to develop the right work environment or offer the most competitive compensation programs. It is the understanding of our employees' expectations, however, that proves most effective...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Get Ready to Implement Benefit Plan Regs on SPDs
- The U.S. Department of Labor DOL has been very busy helping ensure your job security. In November 2000, DOL issued new final regulations on ERISA-covered benefit plan claims procedures and Summary Plan Descriptions SPD. The regulations primarily target health plans and plans providing disability benefits. However, pension and other welfare...
- White papers 2001-02-24
- Pension Plan Language Comes Back to Bite Company
- An employer’s pension plan language was its own undoing in a recent court case where it was determined that the employer was wrong to deny a former employee’s claim for disability retirement benefits. Read the article to know the jurisdiction wherein the pension plan language comes back to bite the...
- White papers 2001-01-23
- Grief on the Job: What Employers Can Do
- Sure, the benefits you’ve assembled for employees will help protect them during many of life’s ups and downs. But sometimes-financial concerns are the last thing on anyone’s mind. What do you do if you get a phone call at home with the terrible news that an employee has died? Your...
- White papers 2001-01-01
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- Company Watch - Airbus
- Oct 1, 2007 Airbus's decision to switch the fuselage frames from aluminium to carbonfibre has eliminated one advantage that the former offered. Airbus has completed a portable mock-up of its new A350 XWB cabin, which is now on display at the airframer[sup.1]s marketing centre in...
- Articles 2007-10-01
- Better remote access, secure endpoints: an upgrade for an outdated remote access solution extends the network while bolstering endpoint control
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Recently, Sunnybrook Hospital, of the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, located in Toronto, found itself facing issues not uncommon to many hospitals--physicians and administrators were demanding easier remote access to the information systems of the healthcare organization, while simultaneously, our IT staff saw a...
- Articles 2007-10-01
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