Wearable Technology in the Workplace

More people are carrying various electronic devices on them at all times. Some of these are already in the workplace such as cell phones, MP3 players, and tablets. However, as technology evolves, a leading-edge trend is for wearable technology. As with…

Employee Recruiting

Employer Shared Responsibility (“Play or Pay”) Regulations

The U.S. Treasury Department released the final regulations implementing the employer shared responsibility penalty provisions of the 2010 health care reform law on February 10, 2014. In many ways, the final regulations resemble the proposed regulation…

January Compliance Recap

Coverage first became available through the health marketplaces/exchanges on January 1, 2014, with a number of temporary provisions in effect to address some of the technical problems experienced in many of the marketplaces. Perhaps as a result of the …

December Compliance Recap

December usually brings a number of releases from the regulatory agencies and 2013 has carried on that tradition.

Exchange Pared Back Further

Most small employers won’t be able to buy plans online until November 2014.

November Compliance Recap

November brought several developments of interest to group health plans.

How I Found a Surprisingly Good Plan

I have been trying to get a sense of what I am buying, of how many options I have to consider, of how much it will cost and of how I can explain my choices to my workers. This has been extraordinarily complex.

How Data Mining Can Be Crucial

It seems you can’t look at a business-oriented website or go to a conference these days without hearing people talk about big data.

Distraught Employee’s Viable FMLA Claim

Kris was forced to endure the unthinkable: her daughter had just become the victim of a sexual assault.