Health insurance premiums and deductibles for job-based coverage edged upward in 2019, surpassing increases in both wages and inflation, according to an … Read more
Student Debt Hits Women Harder Because of the Pay Gap
According to the US Department of Education and AAUW, women earn 57% of college degrees in America, but they hold nearly two-thirds of the country’s … Read more
Lessons From the US Women’s Soccer Team Pay Dispute
The United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) deserves a right to pay equity, and after investigating all of the publicly available data … Read more
New Rule Lets Employees Use HRAs to Pay For Health Care
The new health reimbursement arrangement (or account) (HRA) ruling by the US departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury gives employers … Read more
Technology Can Smooth the Way to Gig Worker Benefits
When choosing to be a gig worker rather than a traditionally employed employee, one of the compromises made is to forgo the protection and economic … Read more
Total Rewards Aren’t Total Without Factoring In the EX
The prospect of becoming irrelevant and marginalized in the digital age is increasingly incentivizing organizations to look for ways to attract and retain … Read more
There’s Value In Wellness Programs. It’s Just Not Financial
Workplace wellness programs have been getting a bad rap lately. While more than 80% of large companies and half of small businesses offer some type of … Read more
Employees Know There’s a Pay Gap and Want You to Fix It
According to a recent SDG Gender Index study from Equal Measures 2030, no country in the world is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030; the US was … Read more
What Your Employees Don’t Know About Their Finances Is Costing Them – And You
People working in tech and other sophisticated industries are often smart, well-educated, hard-working, and passionately dedicated to their jobs. You might … Read more
You Need to Get Creative to Keep Your STEM Parents
People working in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math — feel enormous pressure to put aside all other considerations and devote … Read more
States Are Beginning to Allow Workers’ Comp For PTSD
Watch an episode of “Mad Men,” turn on the nightly news, or beef up your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution, and it’s easy to conclude that workplace … Read more
Help Your Employees Weather Financial Shock With a Savings Plan
Employer-sponsored short-term savings plans aren’t yet a standard work benefit in the way that health insurance and 401(k) accounts are. But it may be time … Read more
How To Rein In Those Runaway Comp Offers
Candidates are approaching job offer negotiations with unprecedented levels of insight and confidence: The US unemployment rate has reached a historic low, … Read more
HR 101: 4 Tricky Areas For Employers With Out-of-State Workers
If you’re conducting business in multiple work states, you can count on the fact that you’ll have to deal with more challenges than a single-state … Read more
Why It’s Hard to Get Excited About Comp Technology
It’s odd that the most numbers focused area of HR, compensation, is also the area with the least buzz in terms of technology. Yes, there is lots of useful … Read more
Is Commuting Becoming the New Healthcare?
There is dissonance between the causes of employee attrition and the actions companies are taking to address it. HR departments, in particular, have yet to … Read more
The Caregivers Among You Need Help
Every year in your role as a human resources or benefits leader, it’s your job to develop a people or benefits strategy that connects your company’s goals … Read more
Abolish Your Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Pay Policy
You thought “Don’t ask. Don’t tell” was a compromise invented over gays in the (US) military. You are wrong. It was the long … Read more
Make What’s Ahead Better Than What’s Behind
As we move into our new year, the optimism of C.S. Lewis in his famous quote, “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind,” can only … Read more
This May Be the Year to Self-Fund Your Health Plan
Note: Brian Uhlig is a senior partner at Alera Group and a Health Rosetta-certified employee benefits advisor who has worked with both large and small … Read more