Communication

Advantages of Benchmarking Your Benefits Program
Scott Riordan
An attractive benefits program is vital for your recruiting and retention efforts, but it is also a significant expense. To ensure you are providing a package that is both competitive and economical, you need to know how your offerings compare to others in your industry. Benchmark data can provide valuable insight for evaluating your benefits package, something that is more important than ever in light of health care reform. Employer...
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Midyear Benefits Changes
Greg Puig
Employers that want to control rising health insurance costs often consider making design changes to their employee benefit plans. Typically, these plan design changes are effective at the beginning of the plan year, and communicated to employees during an open enrollment period that precedes the start of the plan year....
New York City Enacts Paid COVID-19 Child Vaccination Leave
Richard I. Greenberg and Daniel J. Jacobs
The New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act has been expanded to require private employers provide parents with four hours of paid COVID-19 child vaccination time for each vaccine injection for each child, whether to use for the vaccination time itself or side effects. The new law applies retroactively to November 2,...
Affordable Care Act Compliance Reporting – Challenges for HR lay ahead
David Cotie
Yes, the dreaded time of the year is almost here; 1095 Forms are coming! 2021 Affordable Care Act Reporting for “Applicable Large Employers” (those with 50 or more “Full-Time Equivalents” in the prior calendar year) is right around the corner. ACA Reporting (under IRS codes 6055 & 6056) has been...
Finish the Year Strong: Strive to Meet Your 2021 Retirement Savings Goals
Brian Ross
With 2022 inching closer, now is a good time to check in on the goals you set back in January and to take stock of how you’re tracking against them. If you haven’t achieved your retirement savings goals for 2021 yet, don’t despair! Remember, saving for retirement is a long-term...
Onboarding
Fallon Carpenter
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, “Onboarding is the process by which new hires get adjusted to the social and performance aspects of their jobs quickly and smoothly, and learn the attitudes, knowledge, skills and behaviors required to function effectively within an organization.” Onboarding takes training and orientation...
5 Hybrid Work Model Mistakes to Avoid
Fallon Carpenter
The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to adapt and test their operational capacities. One of the most common pivots has been remote work. Now that workplaces are reopening, a significant number of employees want to retain their remote status. In fact, 58% of workers said they want a fully remote position,...
Keeping Your Temporary Workers Happy and Engaged
Katie Evans-Reber
Working with temporary workers may be a great advantage to your business — from helping out with a variety of tasks during seasonal spikes, to promoting your business through word-of-mouth if they enjoyed working with your company. Temporary workers may even consider applying for your full-time roles, reducing the time...
Competitive Compensation
Fallon Carpenter
It’s no secret that top talent expects to be paid top dollar. Even with a developed recruiting program, fantastic work environment and great work-life balance, it will be difficult for your company to attract and retain the best employees without a competitive pay policy. Read on to learn about some...
One Size Does Not Fit All When Recruiting and Retaining Millennials
Katie Evans-Reber
It’s no secret that today’s employment scene is a sellers’ market, with more than 9 million jobs unfilled– the Great Resignation remains in full effect. A June 2021 survey of workers conducted by Yahoo! Finance and Harris Poll found that nearly half of Millennials were thinking of leaving their jobs....
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