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GM Partners with Henry Ford Health System on Direct-to-Employer Care Plan
General Motors has made a deal with Henry Ford Health System, a Detroit-based hospital system, to provide a new health care plan to its salaried employees and their dependents in southeast Michigan,...
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Are HDHPs Supplanting Traditional Health Plans? Not Quite Yet.
A recent data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustrates the growth in popularity of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) over the past decade. Between 2007 through 2017, the...
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IRS Approves Company’s 401(k) Matching Benefit for Student Loan Payments
A private letter ruling released on Friday by the US Internal Revenue Service gave the tax authority’s blessing to a benefit program in which an company offers to make contributions to its employees’...
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Including Benefits in Job Postings Can Help Attract Talent
Competitive total rewards packages are a key battleground in the scramble for talent today. Yet many organizations still rely on outdated approaches when communicating rewards through the hiring...
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US Employees’ Bonuses and Benefits Growing Faster than Wages
The latest compensation data from the US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics show that total compensation for US employees has increased modestly over the past year, from $35.28 per hour...
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140 US CEOs Pledge to Ensure Employees Can Vote
The Time to Vote campaign, announced on September 24, is a nonpartisan effort aimed at increasing voter participation in the US by getting companies to enable or encourage their employees to vote. Some...
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Will Amazon’s Minimum Wage Hike Shake up the Labor Market?
On Tuesday, October 2, Amazon announced that it would raise its internal minimum hourly wage for US employees, including part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies, to $15 an hour....
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For Retailers, Attracting Holiday Staff Means More than Just Raising Pay
Facing one of the tightest labor markets in living memory, US retailers and other companies staffing up for the holiday season have had to get creative about finding and attracting the extra workers...
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More US Employers Embrace Fertility Benefits as a Talent Attractor
In today’s tight labor market, US employers are having to work harder to attract and retain talent, not just by offering more pay and benefits, but also by targeting their employee value proposition to...
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States, Companies Continue to Expand Paid Leave Benefits Throughout US
Though the United States is one of just a handful of countries around the world that does not require organizations to grant their employees paid parental leave by law, recent years have seen more US...
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