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IRS regulation aims to undo the ‘one bad apple’ rule

A pair of recent regulations may create new opportunities for smaller employers to provide cost-effective retirement benefits for their employees. The Department of Labor (DOL) ...
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New voluntary benefit designed to help caregiver employees

CareGiving.com, an online library of resources for caregivers, has partnered with SeniorGuards, a caregiving solutions provider, to offer a new voluntary employee benefit to help ...
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The (new) ABCs of classifying employees and independent contractors

Properly classifying workers as either employees or independent contractors is critically important for California businesses. Employees generally are entitled to benefits that contractors are not, ...
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Whole Foods to cut medical benefits for part-timers

Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market is changing medical benefit eligibility requirements next year that could leave as many as 1,900 part-time workers without coverage. Employees will ...
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What would change if your employees were CEO for a day?

When employees feel like their voices are being heard, they are reportedly 4.6 times more likely to contribute their best work, according to SalesForce data ...
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Making the case for the six-hour workday

The eight-hour workday became common practice in the early 1900s, in a time before the rise of digitalization, robots and technology. Yet even today it ...
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5 reasons employers should offer sponsored fertility benefits

Demand for top talent is pushing plan sponsors to enhance their employee benefits. Some are making changes to their fertility benefits and publicly sharing the ...
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A 401(k) plan administrators’ guide to the recent IRS revenue ruling

The IRS recently issued revenue ruling 2019-19. The revenue ruling provides 401(k) plan administrators with helpful guidance on how to report and withhold from 401(k) plan ...
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8 renewal considerations for 2020

January 2020 renewals are beginning to arrive, and with the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax to new prescription drug coupon regulations on the horizon, here ...
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New HRAs in 2020: What employers need to know

Some of the biggest changes to healthcare design at this moment are encompassed by final rules recently published by the current administration around health reimbursement ...
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The big mistakes employers make when setting up 401(k) plans

American workers are in bad retirement shape. The gap between what employees need to save for retirement and what they are actually saving is widening, ...
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Employee-centric wages: The rise of the daily pay benefit

With low unemployment and workers willing to take a job across the street for a mere $.25 increase in their hourly wage, employers need innovative ...
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