February 11, 2020
5 Tips For Narrowing Pay Gaps
The history of American labor can be told as a struggle for pay equity, punctuated with landmark legislation like the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The former requires employers to provide equal pay for equal work and prohibits pay discrimination based on ...
February 7, 2020
Compliance Recap | January 2020
January was a busy month in the employee benefits world. The U.S. Supreme Court (Supreme Court) denied expedited review of a court case challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Supreme Court also granted review of a nationwide preliminary ...
February 5, 2020
Proposed 2021 Benefit Payment and Parameters Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for benefit payment and parameters for 2021. CMS also released its draft 2021 actuarial value calculator and draft 2021 actuarial value calculator methodology. According to CMS, the proposed rule is intended to ...
February 4, 2020
How To Recruit Generation Z
Just when the HR industry finally mastered adapting its hiring strategies to accommodate Millennials, Generation Z comes into the picture. Though it may be hard for some of us believe, those born in the late ‘90s or early ‘00s are already entering the workforce. In fact, in 2018 Ernst & ...
January 31, 2020
Nondiscrimination Rules for Cafeteria Plans
Updated January 2020 A cafeteria plan is an employer-provided written plan that offers employees the opportunity to choose between at least one permitted taxable benefit and at least one qualified employee benefit. There is no federal law that requires employers to establish cafeteria plans; ...
January 27, 2020
Using the Power of Predictive Analytics
How does your HR department make key decisions? Your personal experience? Cold, hard data? An educated guess? Gut feeling? All of the above? Making major HR decisions is difficult. There are countless dependencies and variables, especially when you’re unsure what the future holds. That’s why ...
January 20, 2020
Battle Tips to Win the War for Talent
In the late 2000s, major headlines concerning the economy and jobs were usually related to unemployment. Qualified people might struggle to get an interview or retain a position in a volatile job market. This was especially true for millennials graduating college at the height of the most ...
January 15, 2020
What Group Plan Sponsors Need to Know About ERISA
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was signed in 1974. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the agency responsible for administering and enforcing this law. For many years, most of ERISA’s requirements applied to pension plans. However, in recent years that changed and group ...
January 13, 2020
The Potential of Pay Transparency
In the not-too-distant past, an individual’s salary was a topic to be avoided. Bringing it up in the break room or at a dinner party was a major faux pas, almost taboo. But today, many HR departments are implementing more pay transparency into their policies—some even going as far as posting ...
January 6, 2020
Aligning with the C-Suite Agenda
If your CEO’s Gmail calendar looks more like a colorful bar graph than a few simple meetings, it can be difficult to capture and retain their attention. Your “C-suite” (CIOs, CEOs, CTOs, CMOs, CFOs, etc.) have a lot of responsibility placed on their shoulders and are likely involved in many key ...
