In March 2010, the United States enacted the comprehensive healthcare reform law known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. Its goals...
Imagine you’re daydreaming about visiting China when out of the blue, your company asks if you’re available to make a business trip over there. Could it be? Your...
Open enrollment is an important time and hectic time of year for HR departments. Employees get to select a new plan for their health insurance and opt into other...
Tax-free scholarships to employees or their kids provided through employer-related 501(c)(3) private foundations aren’t new. Additionally, they aren’t limited to...
Technically, 401(k) plans are profit-sharing plans, not retirement plans. But they morphed into retirement plans long ago, so they’re pretty important to employees....
If you work a job long enough, you eventually come to expect a salary increase, just as most companies expect to give you one. But what happens when the raise you...
Lost in all the attention paid to the effect of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on group health plans is the equally important issue...
Sometimes it is necessary for employees to pay for business-related expenses with their own money, particularly if your business does not offer company credit cards....
When open enrollment season is upon us, many human resource departments across the country scurry to prepare. Teams that want to reduce the stress this time of year...
This is not a post about politics. You can figure that out by yourself. This is a post about the options employers have in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 24...
The prevalence of depression and anxiety in adults has skyrocketed since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, according to the most recent study by Mental Health America....
The best way now to think about military leave under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act is this: If you provide paid leave for almost any...
Offering an attractive employee benefits package helps lure top talent and encourages the retention of your best team members. Workers consider these “perks” when...
Retirement security, or insecurity, has caught the eye of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. He’s right. Fewer employees are covered by traditionally defined benefit plans....
Imagine your grandfather back in the day looking for a job. He might have expected a potential employer’s HR department to offer him healthcare insurance or perhaps a...
Figuring that defined-contribution plans such as 401(k)s weren’t nearly secure as they should be after the passage of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement...
Setting up a 401(k) for employees can be a daunting task for small business owners. It is one of the most highly regulated employee benefits. However, it’s also one of...
The new year often brings a new budget, new goals, and in some states a new minimum wage. That means it’s a great time to start thinking about pay raises.
Pay raises...
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) are employer-established accounts that allow you to put aside pre-tax dollars from your paycheck into a special account to be used for...
