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Kaiser's 'Resources for Individuals and Employers' Healthcare Reform Page
"[The page provides] links to resources for individuals and employers from organizations and government agencies to help consumers understand the health care reform law and navigate their coverage options, and to provide information about the implementation activities underway in federal agencies."
(Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
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[Opinion]
Developing a Review Process for Implementing National Health Care Reform
"[GFOA] recommends that state and local government employers that sponsor group health plans implement a process for reviewing federal health-care benefit requirements at least annually. Doing so will allow employers to plan ahead, allowing them to use the most cost-effective approach to ensuring compliance while offering appropriate benefit levels and options to employees and retirees."
(Government Finance Officers Association)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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[Guidance Overview]
Guidance Issued on Financial Institutions Incentive-Based Compensation Arrangements
"These rules, if enacted, would prohibit 'covered financial institutions' with total consolidated assets of $1 bil.lion or more ('Covered Entities') from providing incentive-based compensation arrangements which encourage inappropriate risk by providing excessive compensation or which could lead to material financial loss of the Covered Entity."
(SNR Denton)
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Employers Often Fail to Estimate Costs of Absences
"The survey of 331 human resources and benefits executives and managers of companies with over 500 employees by Liberty Mutual found an organizational disconnect between collecting absence data to satisfy state and federal regulations and using that data to understand costs and savings to function more effectively."
(Employee Benefit News; free registration required)
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Recent Compensation Compliance-Related Developments Affecting Reward Programs
"Employers should be mindful of recent legal developments that could affect their compensation and other reward programs. These developments include: A court ruling that payments for unused sick days are part of an employee's regular pay rate for purposes of calculating overtime pay . . . ."
(Towers Watson)
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Employee Ownership Update for June 1, 2011
In his latest column, NCEO Executive Director Loren Rodgers discusses a Treasury official's doubts about ESOP floor price protection, research on the behavioral impact of stock options, and more.
(National Center for Employee Ownership)
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Press Releases
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