Recently added articles from Employee Benefit News:
Take it to the bank Take it to the bank.(Feature Story)(paid time-off banks)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Byline: Leah Carlson Shepherd Paid-time-off banks slowly are gaining ground in today's workplaces. Michael Klachefsky, a principal at the HR consulting firm Mercer, observes, "There's a small movement toward PTO banks. It's not a great flood." Scott Stevenson, a ...
Health care costs, reform top of mind for BF&E attendees.(Health Care)(Conference notes)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Byline: Kelley M. Butler If not for a skyline featuring Coca-Cola headquarters and the CNN building, you might never know that EBN's 22nd annual Benefits Forum & Expo had been held in Atlanta. That's because the three-day event was saturated with discussions of health care ...
Preparing for parity; Bolton talks through how to meet mental health parity requirements.(Benefits Corner Office)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nancy L. Bolton September marked the one-year anniversary of the historic collapse of the U.S. financial markets. We still vividly recall former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's passionate plea to Congress for nearly $1 trillion to bailout of the country's financial ...
Leopold tells BF&E attendees to 'be smart about weathering the transition' to health care reform.(Benefits Corner Office)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Byline: Leah Carlson Shepherd This year's recession has taken a noticeable toll on employee benefits. "Times are tight. Dollars are precious," Dr. Ron Leopold, vice president and national medical director of MetLife Institutional Business, told attendees at EBN's Benefits Forum ...
Drug tests: Accurate measures of impairment or ineffective invasions of privacy?(Benefits Corner Office)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Byline: Kathleen Koster Substance abuse is not isolated to one type of employee at one type of company - addicts sit behind desks as well as work in the field. According to some experts, this makes integrating a drug testing program into company culture as a valuable way to curb ...