Wellness

With cuts to health benefits plans, employers are looking for ways to add value to employees. And one way to do that is by offering more voluntary benefits.

Assurant Employee Benefits is promoting its new “FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions” program as a tool insurance companies can use to improve its claim triage and return-to-work programs.

After a rash of suicides by workers last year, Apple product factory Foxconn in Chengdu, China has allegedly begun requiring workers to sign pledges promising not to commit suicide.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that employees ages 45 to 64 will make up a full third of the workforce by next year. Along with job responsibilities, many in this age group also juggle family care-giving responsibilities.

Alabama residents who've been eating too much fried chicken or too many loaded burgers at their favorite restaurants may be out of luck if they want to file lawsuits against the businesses for making them fat.

I think it’s easy for us to forget that HR is often the single most important touchstone for the average American worker when it comes to either medical or retirement advice.

A report this week found that the United States has the highest percentage of single parents in industrialized countries, and lacks family care policies for employees such as child care at work, and paid parental leave, a standard benefit in other countries.

Employers who offer a wellness plan to their workers inevitably will end up saving money in the long term.