• Friday, May 04, 2012
  Plan Design Ideas Hold Hope for Medical Cost Containment
  What’s new in health care coverage? We talked with Cheryl Larson, who is Vice President of the Midwest Business Group on Health (www.mbgh.org) about the hot topics of today in her industry, and of course, health care exchanges were part of the conversation. But as it turns out, there is a lot more on Larson’s mind. Larson believes that the best opportunities to save money will come in the form of value based benefits design, or VBBD.
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• Friday, April 20, 2012
  Compensation Trends for 2012 Revealed
  Employers are reporting that they are poised for growth in 2012 says Stacey Carroll of Payscale. “But the optimism may also be causing a little bit of concern for HR and business leaders,” she explains. “As the economy recovers and businesses performance improves, there is an elevated risk to an organization from a talent management perspective, namely, retention."
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• Monday, April 09, 2012
  Lost Participants Mean Lost Time, Lost Money
  Plan participants go missing every day, and for a number of reasons, says Susan McDonald, President of Pension Benefit Information. The ramifications of being unable to locate participants can be severe. They range from excessive costs to plan disqualification.
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• Sunday, April 01, 2012
  How Economics and Business Management Apply To Compensation
  We recently spoke with Alfred J. Candrilli, a partner at Organizational Consulting Group and Marwaan Karame of Economic Value Advisors and the subjects of economics and business management played a prominent role in our discussion. Candrilli and Karame propose a unique approach to creating a compensation program, and it involves a heavy dose of both.
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• Friday, February 24, 2012
  Health Risk Assessment’s Value Increases Over Time
  The escalation of health care costs is not new; for decades, industry veterans and the person on the street have debated about the best ways to deal with it. Staying healthy means staying away from the health care system—a certain way to save on costs. But how to get employees to grapple with their own health situation can be a challenge. One way to address it is through the use of self-reported information via Health Risk Assessments, or HRAs.
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• Friday, February 10, 2012
  Compensation: Time to Formalize the Plan
  Bill Erdle of William J. Erdle Compensation Consulting shares some of the most common mistakes he sees companies make when it comes to setting up a compensation system and determining employee pay—and how they can be avoided.
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• Friday, January 27, 2012
  4 Tips for Paying Tipped Employees
  It seems so simple. You walk into a restaurant and order your food. If the service is good, you leave a tip of, say, 15% or 20%. The employee takes the tip and gets a paycheck at the end of the week. You don’t give the whole process a second thought. Unless you happen to be in payroll, that is, in which case the whole tipping concept is much more complex than the general public may realize. In an effort to clear up some of the confusion (or perhaps simply to suggest the need for clarity if you’re the one cutting the paychecks), we spoke with HR consultant Barrie Gross
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