Walmart sweetens its college tuition offerings
Walmart is redoubling its efforts to attract high school students by sweetening its tuition assistance offerings.
Benefits
Better training to help managers enforce attendance rules (and stay FMLA compliant)
To keep up with employee absence regs and DOL guidelines, employers need to put in place a robust management program – to define, measure and benchmark absence – to help avoid a lawsuit.
Top 5 most popular employee perks: How does your company stack up?
What are your employees’ favorite perks? If your workforce is anything like the 1,227 participants in a recent Unum survey, the answer is time away from the workplace.
Creating a successful wellness program: Here’s what sets the best ones apart
In the past few years, there’s been an explosion of employers – of all sizes and from all business sectors – looking to start wellness programs to contain their long-term health costs. And when wellness programs are conceived and carried out properly, they’ve been proven to get results.
Pay transparency: A new tool to boost employee engagement
For many companies, discussing salaries has always been taboo. Some firms even required new hires to sign an agreement swearing they wouldn’t disclose their pay to co-workers. This “loose lips sink ships” approach is largely illegal, of course: Employees are generally free to talk about pay rates as part of their rights under the National […]
A 2020 vision: Is your benefits package ready for the future?
Benefits play a pivotal role these days, and pros know how tough it is to keep good people, so many employers are upping their game when it comes to offering their employees a comprehensive benefits package. They’re being strategic about designing a robust package tailored to their employees’ unique needs and one that can convince […]
Salary calculator: 5 comparison tools you can use to check pay levels
As the job market tightens, setting competitive salary levels becomes more and more critical.
Getting PAID: Does DOL’s ‘amnesty’ program pay off for employers?
The Department of Labor (DOL) has extended the pilot program called the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID). Is it something your company should participate in?
Pay student loan or join 401(k)? Help millennials do both
What if there was a way to help your employees repay their student loans and increase your company’s retention rates?
