Human Resources: Benefits

NLRB Extends Weingarten Rights to Unrepresented Employees
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that non-unionized employees have the right to request a co-worker´s presence at an investigative interview if the employee reasonably expects to be disciplined.

BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows
BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows is a software program that manages your company´s COBRA-recipient employee information. Since COBRA compliance is mandated by law, it is important that your company is more than simply aware of what the law says; it must make efforts to ensure that its actions are legally compliant.

TBG ®-FMLA
Federal FMLA regulations dictate that certain paperwork be completed in dealing with FMLA issues. As such, there is a legal onus on employers to efficiently process claims using these forms. However, maintaining a physical library of the paperwork and quickly filling out such forms consumes time and money.

The DOL is Being Sued over "Baby UI"
LPA Inc., the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and two small businesses have joined forces and filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor.

Minimum Wage Debate in New York
Most minimum wage workers (59.7%) are female and 70.8% are adults.

Physicians for Responsible Negotiation
Physicians for Responsible Negotiation (PRN) representing 38 staff physicians, is now in the eighth week (as of June 22, 2000)of what is expected to be a lengthly bargaining process with Wellness Plan, a Detroit-based HMO.

Strategies for Electronic Career Support to Employees
Interest is growing in ways to deliver career development and other HRM services to employees electronically via in-company Intranet and products are being marketed to meet this need.

Gaining Commitment to Change Through Career Coaching
Too much attention is being paid to systems and work in process flows with little to the feelings and concerns of those involved. Personal success and development opportunities for individuals are not being commingled with business enterprise success. These are the very issues that often undermine such change programs.

Sabbaticals from the U.S. Corporate Perspective
Many firms are considering sabbaticals as an effective recruitment and retention tool in order to address workers´ life-balance and health choices.

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Auto Makers Extend Health-Care Benefits to Same-Sex Domestic Partners
To qualify for coverage the employee must have a same-sex partner over 18 years of age and have cohabited for over six months.

Cafeteria Plan Manager ®
Advantages of cafeteria plans include employee participation and customization of benefits, employee attraction and retention, and tax advantages for both the employee and employer.

Compensation Strategy: Setting Parameters to Ensure Competitiveness
A good compensation strategy is developed with senior executive input and will ensure competitiveness within the marketplace by establishing parameters to determine the compensation for your employees. These will be based on three variables...

Labor Project for Working Families Database
Stay abreast of trend-setting union contractual language via the Labor Project for Working Families database. Containing the industries best contract language for work-life issues, this service is offered to you for free.

How to Get Things Done - In Spite Of Yourself
Here are some techniques to help procrastinators get moving and to stay on track.

Understanding Compensation Surveys
Compensation surveys are a significant expense both in terms of the out-of-pocket cost and even more so in the amount of HR time it takes to participate in and analyse a survey. HR.com´s report on comp surveys is available for purchase for $90.00. Read the Executive Summary here before you buy.

The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996
The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) released testimony presented to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Affirmative Action Regulations
The DOL´s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) proposed revisions to the affirmative action regulations were published in the Federal Register on May 4th.

Alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace
This short overview article tells you the key things you need to know about alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace.

Pension Conversion dispute at IBM focuses on age discrimination
The high profile dispute over the 1999 pension conversion at IBM crystallized at the annual stockholders meeting on April 25th with the defeat of an employee -sponsored resolution.

Electronically Transmitted Health Information-it's a matter of privacy
The US. Dept of Health & Human Services proposed ruled on the privacy of electronically stored information. This will affect all companies with health care plans.

Smokers Have a Disability
Heavily addicted smokers have a disability that must be accomodated, arbitrator rules.

Basics of Benefits Strategy
Some of the fundamental thinking underlying benefits policy is discussed.

Depression in the workplace
Of the 19 million Americans diagnosed with depression, about 70% are in the work force. According to various reports, between 5-10% of the US labor force suffers from depression. This comes at a cost to both the victims of depression, as well as to their employers.

What is Stress and Why is it Hazardous?
While we have all, undoubtedly complained about our stress levels "going through the roof" on several occasions, do we actually know what stress can do to our bodies and what we can do to manage stress at the workplace?

Scholarships: a Powerful Tool for Meeting Company Objectives
Scholarships are an attractive benefit to employees, provide good PR and signals that the organization values learning. This brief article gives you the heads-up on scholarships.

The crying game.