How much longer can employers endure rising healthcare costs?

Year after year, employers are faced with rising healthcare costs that for many ... In exclusive research from Arizent, parent company of Employee Benefit News, benefit leaders and workers reveal how ... Read More

How Businesses Are Cutting Healthcare Costs

Rising health care costs are forcing employers ... data available to help inform employees' choices or offering tiered networks within a single plan, according to Lockton. Managing specialty ... Read More

To manage OCD, mental health benefits make a big impact

She started medication along with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and has been able to manage her symptoms for decades. Now in her 30s, she relies on her employee benefits for routine medication ... Read More

A new California rule tries to hold down your health care costs. Here’s how it works

California now is one of nine states with regulations limiting health care cost increases (Oregon is another). Consumers won’t necessarily notice the changes, but supporters say they will make a ... Read More

Primary Care: Can It Solve Employers' Health Care Dilemma?

Employers are beginning to recognize that investing in the primary care foundation of the health care system may help address their problems of rising health care costs and uneven quality. Read More

Proactive strategies to manage rising health costs

employers can effectively manage the challenge of high-cost claimants. This strategy not only aids in controlling health care costs but also supports the overall health and wellbeing of the ... Read More

3 Surprising Ways to Cut Employee Health Care Costs

Rising health care costs are forcing employers ... available to help inform employees' choices or offering tiered networks within a single plan, according to Lockton. 2. Managing special care ... Read More

Employers falling short of workers’ benefits expectations

While American workers ... employers in this year’s poll put cost-cutting on nearly equal footing with recruitment. In line with that shift in sentiment, Lockton estimates health care costs ... Read More

Are employers willing to hire older workers?

In 2019 — before the pandemic — the Center commissioned a telephone survey of employers on their views of workers’ productivity and costs. Employers’ views are roughly consistent with ... Read More

Ships Docked, Trains Halted as Striking Greek Workers Protest Over Rising Costs

Ships Docked, Trains Halted as Striking Greek Workers Protest Over Rising Costs By Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of Greek striking workers, students and ... Read More

Employers must give their workers time off for an abortion or pregnancy care, according to final federal rule

(CNN) — Most employers must offer “reasonable accommodations” to workers related to pregnancy or childbirth, including providing time off for an abortion, according to a final rule issued ... Read More