The battle and confusion of identifying an independent contractor continues. Jumping across party lines for rules established to benefit employers under the Republican Trump Administration to now halting the advancement of those rules in an effort to benefit employees under the Democratic Biden Administration. Such as with any new political administration, the incumbent traditionally pend [Read More]
Published by Human Resource Executive, December 2020. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world, legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself. With all of that change just in the last few months, many HR leaders are looking to 2021 with a [Read More]
Published by America’s Benefit Specialist from NAHU, November 2020. For many organizations, remote work is a new concept. The global pandemic forced countless numbers of employers to rapidly create a work-from-home environment. The speed at which the transition occurred, at different levels of success, allowed many employers to change negative perceptions of remote work, and [Read More]
Across the Human Resource profession, it is easy to identify two approaches: one applies to performing the tasks at hand and the other is strategic. To most, task-related means performing basic HR functions – the immediate tasks at hand. A strategic focus, alternatively, is when an individual adds value beyond the day-to-day to provide long-term [Read More]
As published in August/September 2020, issue of Entertainment Human Resources Network. Bobbi Kloss is the Director of Human Capital Management Services for the Benefit Advisors Network – an exclusive, national network of independent employee benefits brokerage and consulting companies. For more information, please visit: www.benefitadvisorsnetwork.com or email the author at bkloss@benefitadvisorsnetwork.com. Bobbi will be discussing [Read More]
As published by Employee Benefits News on July 20, 2020. Paid time off is one of the most desirable benefits, and often the most negotiated benefit for applicants. Whether the time is allocated in buckets of vacation, sick, and personal leave or lumped together under a single policy, a 2019 WorldatWork PTO study found that [Read More]
Terminated workers are given more time to elect COBRA coverage and pay premiums In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a new final rule that temporarily extends the period in which eligible employees can elect COBRA health insurance coverage and the deadline for them to begin making COBRA premium [Read More]
What makes an employer an “employer of choice?” It is about an organization’s ability to not only attract quality employees but also to retain those employees as well. In Human Capital Management (HCM) terminology, this is called having a total rewards program. The total rewards concept has been around for years, but a total rewards [Read More]
On March 27, 2020, Congress passed H. R. 748, (CARES Act), and President Trump signed it, making it a new law. Called to be the “single-biggest economic relief package in American history,” the CARES Act amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and is created to provide economic relief and stimulus to workers, families, and businesses [Read More]
With many businesses being faced with mandatory State orders to temporarily close or scale back their services in an ability to minimize the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), workers are being displaced. Turning to the unemployment lines, employees are questioning their employers about their potential eligibility for Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. While the determination of [Read More]