06/08/2010
Employers are bracing for health care costs to go up—not down—now that health care reform has become law, according to separate surveys conducted by Towers Watson and Mercer, two of the nation’s largest comp and benefits consulting firms.
06/08/2010
Lots of employers have no-fault attendance policies, which allow a certain number of unexcused absences without any documentation and then punish employees who go beyond allowable limits. No-fault policies are fine … as long as they don’t penalize workers for taking time off that’s protected under the FMLA.