Money Talk

APRIL 4, 2024

Every quarter, I like to review and summarize my notes from webinars I attended during the last three months. Below are some interesting tidbits from recent programs that I attended: Future Self Thinking - Many people often think of their “future self” (who they will be decades in the future) as a stranger. As a result, they don’t think about the consequences of doing something now because their actions are affecting another person rather than themselves personally.

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PayrollOrg

APRIL 4, 2024

Sponsored by rapid!, this free webinar for members “How Payroll and HR Can Rescue Your Company’s Bottom Line,” on April 10 at 1:00 p.m. ET explores strategies and techniques to revolutionize workforce management and enhance your company’s financial health.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 4, 2024

The nascent years of new ways of working in the late 80s and early 90s coincided with a widely held but soon to be discarded belief that the Japanese had cracked management practices. So it was perhaps inevitable that the principles of a process called just in time manufacturing – most famously applied in the factories of Toyota – should migrate to new forms of office design and the rapidly developing practice of flexible working.

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PayrollOrg

APRIL 4, 2024

In this April 2024 edition of Compliance TV: IRS announces 2024 foreign high-cost locations; IRS grants waivers for 2023 foreign exclusion requirement; and more.

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Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 4, 2024

XPO Logistics, a provider of sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, has enhanced its maternity benefits for soon-to-be and new parents based in the UK. After two years’ service, employees will be entitled to the first six weeks of maternity leave paid at 90% of their weekly average earnings, with the following 20 weeks paid at 80% of their basic pay and allowances, including statutory maternity pay.

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 4, 2024

Back in the day, remember SARS-CoV-2? We went home for Spring Break 2020 and before it was over the Universities had all told us "STAY AWAY! We did the shift, the pivot, the switch. I went to video for teaching. We went to video for trials. We shifted mediation to telephonic. It was a tumultuous time. I later wrote Little Black Boxes (December 2021) riffing on the old Mellencamp tune Little Pink Houses.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 4, 2024

A new report from Sage claims that HR professionals now welcome AI to ease the burden of admin jobs, take away time consuming tasks, and, ultimately, ease burnout. The annual report, titled ‘The Changing Face of HR’ [registration], surveyed over 1,000 HR leaders across a range of sectors and countries, finding that 77 percent believe AI has the potential to revolutionise ways of working within their company.

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Employee Benefit News

APRIL 4, 2024

Seventy-two percent of people with addictions will recover — but they need help from their employer to feel safe seeking support.

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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

APRIL 4, 2024

In late December 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2024-2 (the Notice), providing guidance on key provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0). SECURE 2.0, which was passed in December 2022, includes more than 90 provisions affecting US retirement plans, many of which are specifically aimed at enhancing savings opportunities […] The post A Q&A and More Delay: IRS Begins to Issue Clarifying Guidance on SECURE 2.0 Provisions appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEF

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Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

Employee Benefit News

APRIL 4, 2024

Health plan sponsors must know the direct and indirect compensation paid to benefit brokers, consultants and medical and prescription drug claims administrators.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

APRIL 4, 2024

Recent DOL reports on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act enforcement indicate pitfalls that plan sponsors should avoid in order to be compliant with parity rules. Learn more about impermissible exclusions of key treatments for MH/SUD and parity enforcement. The post Mental Health Parity—Pitfalls to Avoid appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Employee Benefit News

APRIL 4, 2024

Lisa McDowell, CMO of Immersive Gamebox, explains what makes the best offsite corporate bonding events.

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15Five

APRIL 4, 2024

Successful employee programs rely on accurate data and insights, which is achievable only with the right tech stack. Some businesses lean on their HR Information System (HRIS) to fulfill all of the needs of HR leaders, including gathering insights into employee performance… but an HRIS on its own is ill-equipped to manage the demands of effective performance management.

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Employee Benefit News

APRIL 4, 2024

Looking closely at candidates with different educational and cultural backgrounds can be an advantage to a business.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 4, 2024

Law firm Lodders has hired Grace Walton (pictured left) as people and culture director. In her role, Walton will lead and coordinate the delivery of the firm’s strategic and operational HR function, people initiatives and talent management activities, as well as growing the HR team. She has dedicated HR experience as well as legal sector expertise, having worked in-house at law firms since 2017.

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Employee Benefit News

APRIL 4, 2024

Adobe Acrobat tested over 1,000 Americans on their knowledge of workplace acronyms, and the results are in.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 4, 2024

Almost one-third (29%) of parents with young children do not feel at all confident in their ability to cope financially if diagnosed with a critical illness, according to research by life and pensions mutual insurer LV=. Its second annual Reaching resilience report , which surveyed 4,000 UK adults, also found that the average working adult supports three people with their income, including themselves, with 10% supporting five or more dependents.

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Insperity

APRIL 4, 2024

Talk of emotional intelligence, or EQ, and its importance for business success has been around for years, but some leaders still think it is touchy-feely nonsense. The problem with this train of thought? Nothing could be further from the truth. EQ can actually make or break a person’s career, and that means every leader needs to be smart about emotional intelligence.

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InterWest Insurance Services

APRIL 4, 2024

One often overlooked cost driver to your employee benefits plans is administrative errors and oversights that are the result of sloppy record-keeping and a lack of checks and balances among your account and human resources teams. If you are not diligent in keeping up with outgoing employees, are not paying enough attention to admin details and checking billing for errors, and are not reviewing accounts regularly, you could be leaving money on the table unnecessarily and overpaying for your group

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Benefit Resource Inc.

APRIL 4, 2024

As an employer or HR manager, you’re constantly seeking ways to enhance your employee benefits package, ensuring it not only attracts top talent but also supports their financial well-being throughout their careers and into retirement. One often-overlooked gem in the world of benefits is the Health Savings Account (HSA). While traditionally associated with healthcare expenses, HSAs can play a pivotal role in retirement planning for your employees.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 4, 2024

The aura of moral goodness coming from within charitable organisations can blind their employees and volunteers, according to new research from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). Lead researcher, Dr Isabel de Bruin found that people in charities’ can glorify their charities’ noble goals, noble values, and noble people. This self-glorification can lead to unethical behaviour, which she terms as the “NGO halo effect”.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

Nearly 100 percent of workers want to work from home at least some of the time. Remote work is here to stay, folks, making virtual meetings the glue keeping offsite teams getting along. Virtual meetings aren’t new. Most of us are familiar with the pros and cons of video conferencing and how it behaves as a substitute for in-person meetings. Online meetings are incredible collaboration tools.

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BerniePortal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2023, LeRoy Torres, an army reservist and Texas state trooper, was awarded $2.49 million in a USERRA lawsuit. Torres was deployed in Iraq where he was exposed to toxic burn pits that caused toxic brain injury. As a result of his deployment, he also developed a severe respiratory condition that disabled him from doing his job.

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HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2024

The idea of creating an experimental workplace culture sounds quite inviting at first glance—creative ideas, engaged workers, a reputation for being the center of innovation—what’s not to like? However, despite the many benefits of developing an experimental workplace culture , most organizations choose to stick to the traditional work environment and avoid straying too far from the familiar.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 4, 2024

In a carefully-crafted, but complex decision that will likely reverberate for some time, a New York appellate court held that the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board had erred in applying disparate burdens to claimants seeking benefits for a psychological injury related to COVID-19 versus claimants seeking benefits for a physical injury related to that same virus [ Matter of Anderson v.

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Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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