It is not enough to offer benefit plans to attract workers; these same benefits must integrate seamlessly into the lives of employees to deliver their promised value and encourage retention.
Very sophisticated adjudicatory authorities cannot even agree on what an 'employee' is. But we have adopted a legal scheme that subjects a business owner to being labeled a fraudster if she guesses wrong.
The total unpaid absence rate went up 60% between the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, with spikes in absences due to sickness, child care needs, and family obligation.
As more employers have difficulty filling police, fire, corrections, health care and other positions, more than 20% are offering permanent pay increases, and 19% offer targeted hiring bonuses.
Listen to employees, provide them with the tools they need for success, and your organization will find itself thriving in this new workforce environment.
The legislation would require the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers over the price of some high-cost drugs in the Medicare program.
Attorneys argued that the law, which limits how much patients have to pay out-of-network providers in emergencies and other scenarios, violated physicians' Fifth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
For millions of families living with chronic diseases or other debilitating conditions, inflation is proving a punishing scourge that could be harmful to their health.