Are deductions for medical, dental and other insurance pre-tax for our employees? Maybe. Certain insurance deductions can be pre-tax for employees, but only if the employer has a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan in place. A Cafeteria Plan requires a formal signed plan...

LEXINGTON – It’s a candy factory. Not a movie fantasy like Willy Wonka’s, but a special place nonetheless. The bracing aroma of peppermint pervades the building and clings sweetly to clothes when you leave. Workers in lab coats and hair nets move among gleaming...

Health Policy UpdateNov. 1, 2017 – ACA Open-enrollment Period ApproachesAs of March 2017, about 10.3 million people signed up and paid for coverage on the ACA exchanges. The next enrollment period begins Nov. 1, 2017 and lasts 45 days. HHS officials said there is no...

How to Help Employees Blend Work and Life Effectively Five years ago, forward-thinking HR executives were thinking about work-life balance and how to help busy, stressed-out employees find enough downtime outside the office. In over two years of Herman Miller...

One-third of Employers Make Costly Payroll Mistakes September 4th – 8th is National Payroll Week—a week that “celebrates the hard work by America's 150 million wage earners and the payroll professionals who pay them.” Did you know that 67% of the annual revenue of the...

Necessities & Health Care – Where U.S. Consumers Spend Their MoneyConsumers spend most of their money on necessities, especially housing and health care. The brick-and-mortar retail industry is in crisis. For many old-line retailers, sales and market share are...

How the Feds Are Using Data to Right-Size a Massive Real Estate Portfolio Big Government Equals Big Real Estate According to the 2016 summary of findings from the Federal Real Property Profile dataset, the U.S. government has 267,000 buildings in its domestic real...

Employers Should Comply Now with ACA Reporting Requirements The ACA May Be Here to Stay Congress made several attempts, but ultimately failed to garner the votes needed to repeal and replace, or even amend the Affordable Care Act. Although President Trump continues to...

TelePayroll 401 Retirement Plan SeriesRetirement Planning – Getting Through the MazeStarting a retirement savings plan can be easier than most business owners think. What’s more, there are a number of retirement programs that provide tax advantages to both employers...

How HR Leaders Can Take Small Steps to Begin Utilizing HR Analytics When Drinking from a Fire Hose, Take Small Sips Today, there’s no shortage of talk about Big Data and how to use it to improve all kinds of aspects of a business. Because employee costs are one of the...

An Analysis of The Physician Perspective On Single-Payer Health Care SystemSingle-payer health care is a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians now support it, new survey finds.Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were...

ACA Federal Pay Cost-Sharing AnalysisRecent debate over federal payments to insurers under the (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA’s marketplaces is alive and well.- The ACA requires insurers to offer plans with reduced patient...

Health Experts Seek 2-Party Insurance Market FixPolicy-adviser group offers plan to stabilize insurance markets, as lawmakers consider bipartisan overhaulA bipartisan group of health policy experts offered a proposal on 8-9-17 to stabilize the ACA’s fragile insurance...

Insurers Seek ACA Premium Bumps of 30%+There is uncertainty in the health-insurance marketplaces as insurers around the U.S. try to make decisions about rates and participation for next year amid open questions about changes that could come from the administration and...

Why Employees and Managers Have Different Perspectives on Top Sources of Workplace Stress You’re stressing me out! It’s a near certainty that managers and employees will experience workplace stress from time to time. But what causes stress in managers versus their...