Employee-Paid

While employee benefit costs continue to rise, there is one popular employee benefit that comes at no cost to companies: pet health insurance.

A majority of California voters are in favor of public-employee pension caps to help balance the state’s budget, according to a poll by The Los Angeles Times and USC.

Advocates for universal health care plan to rally at the state Capitol in an attempt to save Connecticut's planned SustiNet system.

Employers in New Jersey can no longer exclude unemployed people when they advertise job vacancies in their companies.

This week's round-up of employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company released Wednesday its new Group Medical Bridge 1.0 product, a group hospital confinement indemnity plan that pays benefits to help cover the out-of-pocket medical and non-medical expenses associated with a covered hospital stay.

For two days in June, HR experts and leaders from around the world will gather to discuss critical issues and find solutions to the challenges faced in the shifting industry.

More than a thousand Kaiser Permanente pharmacists in Southern California have stopped plans to strike on Thursday and Friday because benefit negotiations have moved forward, said Jim Anderson, spokesperson for Kaiser Permanente.