Help workers transition from employer coverage to Medicare
The transition from employer coverage to Medicare usually happens while the employee is still on the payroll, so the job often falls to HR to help employees navigate this critical change.
Benefits
Why hire a health coach? It cuts costs, keeps employees healthy
Companies are experimenting with health coaches to encourage engagement in wellness programs
Employer 529 plans: A benefit that strikes at the heart of student debt
Employers can help their employees prevent massive student debt in the first place by showing them how to take advantage of employer 529 plans.
Firms expanding employee wellness programs: How do you stack up?
Employers are expanding benefit strategies to emphasize employee well-being, broader benefit packages and the use of new technologies to support employee decision-making.
Health insurance costs at record highs, coverage erodes
Employer-provided health insurance coverage for the average American family now costs as much as a small car – $20,000 – every year. That’s the finding of a just released study by the Kaiser Family Foundation nonprofit health research group. The foundation’s annual survey of employer-provided health insurance plans found that employees, on average, pay about […]
Benefit switch allowed unused PTO to go toward student loans
In a recent case study detailing what worked and what didn’t, Dan Bengyak, Vice President of Administrative Services at Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, NY, shares how his company dealt with a vacation time issue: We had an interesting problem on our hands when it came to employees’ vacation time — they had […]
Is your benefits package ready for 2020?
Is your benefits package ready for 2020? Here is a list of the top compliance issues employers have to consider.
SHRM 2019: Financial wellness benefits employees want and need
The HRMorning team joined 20,000 other HR pros at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference and expo in Las Vegas June 23 – 26. Here’s some of what we learned about employee financial wellness benefits programs. Helping employees achieve and maintain financial wellness was a hot topic at the SHRM conference as employers […]
What great wellness programs do differently: 3 proven tactics
Great wellness programs achieve the ultimate goal, which is really two-fold: get employees healthier and keep healthcare costs down.
