Rising costs have motivated many employers to adopt High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) increasing the amount paid by employees for health care coverage. The Towers Perrin 2008 Health Care Cost Survey notes that...
Carnival of HR # 18
October 31, 2007
The latest installment of Carnival of HR is hosted by HRO Manager, a blog dedicated to human resources outsourcing information and comment. There are several interesting posts including one by HR Wench lamenting about...
Many managers view the efforts of HR to bring order to the hiring process as meddlesome, bureaucratic and dilatory. “Just find me someone to fill this position” is the usual approach. There are several things...
Health Plan Renewal Time: 2008 Employee Health Care Costs Expected To Exceed $9,300 Per Employee
October 23, 2007
The average corporate health benefit expenditure in 2008 will be $9,312 per employee—an increase of 7 percent over 2007—with annual per-employee contributions exceeding $2,000, according to Towers Perrin’s...
On October 16, 2007, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, a former teacher from New Jersey, applied for benefits over the Internet becoming the nation’s first baby boomer to make a claim for Social Security. The Chicago...