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Teach Your Workers the Value of Their
Benefits and Increase Utilization
Despite the current recession, many employers have pinched pennies and bent over backwards to preserve their employee benefits programs while times are tough. Here's the kicker, though: Your workers may not understand–or appreciate–what you're doing for them!
Join us on May 14 for this practical 90-minute audio conference, as our expert speaker shares proven strategies for communicating the value of your employee benefits programs in your workplace, increasing utilization rates, and cutting down on HR time and overhead in the process.
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Employers That Suspend 401(k) Match Can Save Millions, But Is It Worth It?
New research finds that most companies could save millions of dollars by suspending their 401(k) match for one year. And it’s a measure they are beginning to take with greater frequency in response to continued cost pressures. But such a measure will have a significant impact on employees’ ability to save enough for retirement.
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Be Timely with Employment Taxes--Or Pay Big Time
Now that many of us have filed our own federal and state income taxes, one law firm thinks it’s also time to talk about employers’ obligations for employment taxes. Baker Donelson suggests that in tough economic times, employers that have cash flow problems may be tempted to put those tax reports and payments low on their priority lists. Don’t do it, warns the firm.
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This Week's Poll
Has your organization reduced or suspended its 401(k) match in response to the recession?
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Last Week's Poll
What percentage of your employees get paid by direct deposit?
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Hard Times Don’t Necessarily Equate to Pessimism About Earnings
In spite of the tough times currently being experienced by many Americans, as a group we are looking at the big picture with optimism, says a recent public opinion poll by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project.
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Most Employers Use Set Formula to Calculate Severance
Fewer than one out of four employers negotiates severance packages with their employees, according to a survey on Compensation.BLR.com and HR.BLR.com.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the past 90 days.
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Maximize the Impact of Your Employee Assistance Program
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Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) have been around for decades, and your company likely has one. You may not pay much attention to it, but if you don’t, you may be missing an opportunity to really reap its maximum value.
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
Can we cut the standard workweek--for instance, from 40 to 30 hours--with a corresponding pay cut for exempt employees?
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HR Challenge®: Background Checks
For a promotion, an employer will use a third party to conduct a background check on an employee that includes arrest records. The employer will pay the employee an annual salary of $95,000 in the new position, an increase from $85,000. What is the time limitation on how far back the consumer reporting agency may go in its report about such adverse information about this employee, according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Benefit Enrollment Forms and Personnel Folder
An HR Forum subscriber is asking whether employees' benefit-related information must be kept separate from their personnel files.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Tonsorial Artist
National Average Salary: $10.32 per hour (June 2005 data)
The tonsorial artist finds himself in many hairy situations. A tonsorial artist is a barber, which the Department of Labor classifies among personal service occupations.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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