A new report from the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) indicates American women, especially single mothers, were more likely to report financial strain and hardship in recent years, according to Human Resource Executive Online.

The United States Supreme Court has announced it will examine a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Employee health is an important component of any business model.

A study by the nonprofit RAND Corporation recently found the practice of bundling payments to healthcare providers has been difficult to implement, based on examination of a three-year effort to test the approach to healthcare financing.

According to a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), reforms that cut Social Security benefits could result in a net gain for younger workers.

Companies that offer health coverage to their employees are providing a major enticement that will attract the best candidates for most positions.

Employee benefits are mostly offered to workers who actually perform tasks that employers deem worthy of compensation.

A recent survey of 431 workers found 75 percent did not want their manager’s job, Human Resource Executive Online reports.

Most types of employee benefits are provided so that workers can afford some service that might ordinarily be outside of their financial reach.

Besides the major services that employers usually make available, there are a number of secondary fringe benefits that must be considered when constructing a coverage package for workers.