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Employee Benefits: The Only Guide You Need

Achievers

Federal and state mandated benefits include health insurance, worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, and required leave time for caring for family and/or personal medical purposes. Health insurance, and family and medical leave, are not required for all businesses. Flexible work schedules .

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Migraines in the workplace: Your ADA rights and employer obligations

Business Management Daily

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law. It requires employers to provide workplace accommodations for people with qualifying medical conditions. The Americans with Disabilities Act defines a disability as a physical or mental health impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

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Common life stressors and their impact on the workplace

Insperity

It’s easy to say leave your problems at the door, but sometime common life stressors can affect employees’ personal lives so much that it creeps into their professional life. While balancing work and personal lives can create tension for employees, life stressors that can impact performance go beyond typical day-to-day life issues.

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5 Must Have Employee Benefits and Perks for 2022

Best Money Moves

Accessible paid leave. In 2021, the White House introduced the American Families Plan, which includes a comprehensive parental, medical and family leave program. Remote work flexibility. According to MetLife, 37 percent of employees polled felt stressed while working more than half the time.

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Care for your people: When life stressors and work collide

Insperity

It’s easy to say leave your problems at the door, but sometimes common life stressors can affect employees’ personal lives so much that it creeps into their professional life. This is especially true in a post-pandemic landscape where there’s even more of a grey area between the separation of life and work.

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The Juggling Act of the COVID Circus

HR Digest

This article is a guide for Employers on the application of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FCCRA”) as related to managing work and leave options for Employees who have children at home who would ordinarily be in school or in daycare. Emergency Family and Medical Leave for Virtual School.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. Millennials currently make up 25% of caregivers, and given greater longevity among aging and chronically ill family members this number is bound to grow. were able to access paid family leave in 2016. billion per year. ?