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BenefitsLink Health & Welfare Plans Newsletter
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6th Annual Obesity and Wellness Congress [Advert.]

Convening providers, payers, employers and public purchasers, the 6th Annual Obesity and Wellness Congress will discuss preventative and collaborative solutions to reverse the nationwide epidemic of obesity.
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An Over-the-Counter Remedy for the Health Risk Assessment Headache
"Can [an employee be required] to take a health risk assessment ('HRA') as a condition of participation in a wellness program or group health plan? . . . This post [describes] some basic principles that employers can follow to determine what they can and cannot do in designing HRA incentives."
(Verrill Dana, LLP)
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New York State Employees' Union Accepts Wage and Benefits Concessions
"The ratification was a critical victory for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat whose plan to close the state's budget gap relied in large part on a bet that state employees would be willing to stomach a freeze on wages and an increase in the cost of health benefits in return for safeguarding their jobs."
(The New York Times; free registration required)
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Register for our Exclusive Webcast [Advert.]

Michele Levine, Director of Global Benefits, Avon Products, will provide information about how Avon leveraged the Extend Health Medicare exchange to deliver health care insurance choice, savings and satisfaction to its Medicare-eligible retirees. Register now.
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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EBSA Web Site for Employees and Employers: Health and Retirement Benefits After Job Loss
"Plant and business closings, downsizings, and reductions in hours affect employees in numerous adverse ways. Workers lose income, the security of a steady job and, often, the health and retirement benefits that go along with working full time. Dislocated workers may have many questions, some of them concerning health and retirement benefits."
(U.S. Employee Benefits Security Administration)
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Miami Declares 'Financial Urgency' as It Moves to Cut Worker Pay and Benefits
"The declaration gives unions for municipal workers two weeks to agree to contracts for the year that starts in October or be subject to actions imposed by the City Commission. Workers including police and firefighters absorbed about $80 mil.lion in reduced pay, health insurance and pensions in fiscal 2011."
(Bloomberg L.P.)
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Press Releases
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