21 Jun DOL Overtime Rule Will Impact Hospitality Industry

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Originally Posted by SHRM.org By: Allen Smith The hospitality industry will be hit hard by the Department of Labor’s updates to the overtime rule implementing the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), experts say. With high overhead costs and a low-profit margin, hotels and restaurants typically don’t have...

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13 Jun What Percentage of Your Life Will You Spend Exercising?

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Original post benefitspro.com How much of your life will you spend exercising? Reebok and Censuswide, a global consulting firm, studied exercise habits of people in nine different countries and came to the conclusion that the average person spends 0.69 percent of their life working out. Or, as the shoe...

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10 Jun Wellness Programs Benefit Employers, Employees

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Original post benefitspro.com Offering employee wellness programs isn’t just an exercise in altruism for employers. It pays off where most companies would value it most: the bottom line. According to Forbes, companies are jumping on the wellness program bandwagon right and left, to varying degrees. In fact,...

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08 Jun Americans Don’t Do Much to Avoid Hearing Loss

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Original post benefitspro.com Have you ever even heard of healthy hearing habits? If not, you’re probably not alone. Relatively few Americans appear to pay much attention to their ears, according to a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of EPIC Hearing Healthcare. The survey found that...

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07 Jun Study Suggests Plan Transparency Doesn’t Reduce Costs

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Original post benefitspro.com “Transparency” and “choice” are keywords associated with health plan consumers these days. But there’s no guarantee those key words will lead to the keyword phrase “lower health plan costs.” One survey of the employees of two large employers reports that, given transparency and choice, plan...

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02 Jun Remote Workers Are Happier

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Original post benefitspro.com People who work remotely are happier, according to a new survey conducted by TinyPulse, an employee engagement firm. The firm polled 509 U.S. workers who always work remotely about their job satisfaction and compared their responses to those of the roughly 200,000 U.S. employees...

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01 Jun Many Employees Still Unaware of Free Preventive Care Benefits

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Original post benefitspro.com Even employees covered by an employer-sponsored health plan remain confused about the benefits that are free of charge to them under health care reform law. But employers say that they often don’t have the resources or effective communications tools to fully explain these...

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25 May 5 Crucial Wellness Strategies for Self-Funded Companies

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Instead of paying pricey premiums to insurers, self-insured companies pay claims filed by employees and health care providers directly and assume most of the financial risk of providing health benefits to employees. ...

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19 May Why Employers Should Consider Mindfulness Training as an Employee Benefit

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Resilience gained attention in the 1970s as psychologists and trauma researchers began to articulate the amazing ability of many people to bounce back following a devastating event, crisis or injury. Over time, researchers have identified the characteristics of resilient people, and have identified how to...

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15 Apr 5 Ways Employers Can Optimize the Value of Maternity Care for Employees

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Original post benefitnews.com For many employers, discussions with employees about pregnancy focus on one topic: maternity leave. Yet, it is important to remember that length of maternity leave is only one of several important decisions made by an employee preparing for childbirth. Expecting parents are highly engaged in...

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