A year removed from the Affordable Car Act’s implementation and nearly five years after the legislation was signed into law by President Barack Obama, consumers appear to be more receptive to the coverage requirement, based on recently released polling data.
If 2015 is a year in which you plan on hiring more people for your company, consider yourself in good company, based on the results of a recent survey regarding employers’ recruitment activity in the new year.
Less than 10 percent of employers that offer health insurance use objective data and ratings that assess the overall caliber of plan offerings, according to newly released details from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
You may want to encourage your employees to heed their eye doctor’s entreaty to set up an eye exam appointment. There’s a safety concern they may be told about that could affect their holiday shopping intentions.
In a recent survey of insurance professionals, a fairly high percentage say they’ve noticed more companies taking a second look at their benefits packages and finding that they may not be adequately satisfying their staff members’ needs, particularly as they relate to their workers’ handling of finances.
The single greatest impact of a poor hiring move on a company is its negative impact on staff morale, according to a survey from staffing firm Robert Half.
The National Business Group on Health has called out the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying that filing a lawsuit against a company that runs an incentive-based wellness program may have serious repercussions that could be counterproductive to these initiatives.
Entrepreneurs who run small businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with large employers in a number of ways, including wages, employee benefits, job perks and recruiting resources.
More than any other pursuit, employers spent the most time over the past year working to improve employees’ understanding of their benefits, according to a recent survey from the National Business Coalition on Health.