Benefits Manager

Jobless rates rose last month in more than half of the nation's largest metro areas, driven higher by weak private-sector hiring and natural disasters.

When implementing workplace wellness programs, organizations have the right intentions; to offer a program that will help their employees live a healthier life and to limit medical costs to the organization. The problem is that too many organizations are sabotaging their own efforts without even knowing it. And it's no...

Firms in the United States are targeting 4.9 percent growth in 2011, and a new study from Hay Group finds they're going to demand an increase in work force productivity to meet that goal.

With little time to spare before a state government shutdown, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and top Republican lawmakers turned Tuesday to one of the most disputed areas of the unfinished state budget — health and welfare programs.

The husband of an obese woman who died of a blood clot after working long hours at her home office is eligible to receive workers' compensation benefits, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday in a case that raised questions about the broader implications of the sedentary desk jobs of...

Companies in Illinois should see their workers' compensation premiums drop because Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday signed a new law overhauling the system that takes care of employees injured on the job.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday signed landmark legislation that increases pension and health contributions paid by a half-million teachers, police and other public workers and removes the issue from collective bargaining for four years.

This week, I’ll be back in D.C. for meetings with various policy makers recommending fixes to this provision, as well as to the one that requires consumers to forfeit their unused FSA account balance at the end of the year.