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Compensation & Benefits

ACA roundup

06/20/2016
The Department of Health and Human Services has released its final notice of benefit and payment parameters for the 2017 plan year and the Department of Labor has finalized changes to the summary of benefits and coverage template.

The worst vacation is the one that wasn’t taken

06/20/2016
Employees say they’re willing to trade off other benefits in exchange for more vacation time—but consistently decline to take time off to which they are entitled, according to a new survey by the HR software development firm Namely.

School’s out, hire carefully

06/16/2016
There’s a lot to know before you hire a teen for a summer job.

Free resources for offering myRA benefits available on web

06/14/2016
The Department of Labor has rolled out a website full of resources for employers that want to help employees set up retirement savings accounts through Uncle Sam’s myRA program.

Chasing the next story a bad career choice

06/14/2016
For the third year in a row, journalism brought up the rear in employment research firm CareerCast.com’s annual 10 Job Rated Worst Jobs report.

Snapshot: Who is responsible for recruiting?

06/14/2016

Who handles the recruiting in your company?

High Court OKs statistical analyses to figure unpaid time

06/13/2016
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employees at a meat processing plant may use statistical analyses to prove that they weren’t paid for their changing time in class action lawsuits brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Is timekeeping software the OT answer?

06/13/2016
When the Department of Labor released the final overtime regulations last month, the agency also put out extensive guidance on how to account for hours worked. The DOL suggested that employers and employees can simply agree on a set schedule, with the understanding that employees would report any deviations from the usual to their boss.

You have until December to comply with new overtime regulations

06/09/2016
Following two years of development and debate, the U.S. Department of Labor in May released a sweeping overhaul of the regulations for paying overtime to exempt, white-collar employees.

DOL to appoint fiduciary for abandoned Bronx 401(k)

06/09/2016
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefit Security Admin­istration has asked a federal court to appoint a fiduciary for the 401(k) plan at Astro Communications, a Bronx telecommunications firm.