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HR Dive
Sept. 29, 2025
"[1] Intermittent leave requests have grown, partly due to mental health issues ... [2] Expectations should be set upfront ... [3] Vague or insufficient leave certifications can be trouble ... [4] It's not always the employee's fault if a certification is late ... [5] The FMLA's regulations expect a level of courtesy from employees ... [6] A manager's errant comments or actions may lead to a court date."
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HR Dive
Oct. 2, 2017
"The first steps in building out a mobile strategy should center around data security and ensuring an exceptional user experience. Choosing a platform and identifying features are the easy parts. Companies should enlist clients and partners to help drive the roadmap and ensure the development team can execute the project and workflow, and meet the agreed upon organizational objectives."
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Hodges-Mace in HR Dive
July 18, 2018
"How can HR be certain employees fully understand, appreciate and utilize their benefits? One way is to introduce an employee benefits app to provide fingertip access 24/7. Mobile access to benefits ... [1] Makes benefits accessible for employees ... [2] Increases employee engagement ... [3] Boosts employee retention ... [4] Consolidates data to contain costs."
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HR Dive
Aug. 5, 2025
"[A]mong a sample of employers ... 80% chose to assume that all of their employees met the 50/75 requirement.... The rise of flexible work -- and its associated compliance complexities -- is yet another reason to consider waiving the FMLA's location-based eligibility requirements.... There are both practical and equity-based reasons to consider assuming that all employees meet FMLA's location requirements ... but there is also a small risk."
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HR Dive
July 24, 2025
"While 39% of workers said they've taken a mental health day, only 10% felt comfortable being honest with their employer about it -- and received a positive response. Another 19% have disguised their mental health days as physical illness days, and 11% told their employer the truth but felt dismissed or unsupported."
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HR Dive
June 16, 2025
"Employers said rising medical care costs, in particular, have created greater challenges for delivering their health benefits (44%), well-being programs (44%) and leave benefits (36%)."
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HR Dive
May 29, 2025
"According to the complaint, even though the Key Executive plan doesn't define 'spouse,' Coca-Cola now allegedly maintains the term could only mean the executive's spouse at the time he began receiving benefits. It determined that because the plaintiff wasn't married to him then, she wasn't his surviving 'spouse' and the other representations had been a mistake, the lawsuit alleged." [Wolf v. The Coca-Cola Co., No. 25-2738 (N.D. Ga. complaint filed May 16, 2025)
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HR Dive
May 27, 2025
"Employers rely on 4.4 different communication methods on average; however, the majority of employers use only three. By far the most popular method of communication is email, used by 87% of respondents. Discussion during in-person meetings and text messages are also widely used marketing techniques."
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HR Dive
Jan. 15, 2025
"Multiple U.S. Supreme Court justices challenged a Florida city government's position ... that a retired firefighter could not sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act over alleged disability discrimination with respect to a retirement healthcare benefit that she earned while working for the city." [Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida, No. 22-10002 (11th Cir. Oct. 11, 2023; cert. pet granted No. 23-997, Jun. 24, 2024; oral arg. Jan. 13, 2025; transcript and audio available)]
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HR Dive
July 19, 2024
"An Illinois law signed last week prohibits health insurers from requiring 'step therapy' -- a practice in which physicians are required to treat covered patients with less expensive treatments before moving to more expensive ones -- and prohibits requiring prior authorization for certain emergency mental health treatment.... The law does not cover self-insured health plans governed by [ERISA]. It is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2025."
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