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Employee communications should link the goals of the HR and benefits departments with employee awareness, commitment and engagement. Messages from HR tend to concentrate on issues that have the most impact on the value of the employment experience: compensation, benefits, career development, training and work-life balance. That means the effectiveness of these communications has a [...]
Almost half of U.S. employees are not fully taking advantage of their vision benefits, potentially putting themselves at greater risk for costly eye problems and systemic diseases. In fact, 24% of U.S. workers do not enroll in their employer’s vision plan, and 30% of those who do enroll do not use their coverage to receive [...]
Although the Internal Revenue Code imposes an excise tax on employers for failure to comply with various federal group health plan mandates (including, for example, IRC Sections 4980B, 4980D, 4980E and 4980G), the IRS has never provided a method for self-reporting the excise tax. Nor has the agency aggressively imposed any tax as part of [...]