Assurant Employee Benefits is promoting its new “FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions” program as a tool insurance companies can use to improve its claim triage and return-to-work programs.

While the job market at times still looks pretty lousy, a new survey has some upbeat findings, as well as some not-so-rosy results. Many laid-off employees have been hired back, less are taking pay cuts, yet women and older workers are having trouble finding work.

An increase in last month’s CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) may be sign of more positive hiring trends for small employers.

The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have requested comment from the public on issues relating to 4980H, the "play or pay" or “shared responsibility" provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

After a rash of suicides by workers last year, Apple product factory Foxconn in Chengdu, China has allegedly begun requiring workers to sign pledges promising not to commit suicide.

We already have a pretty good idea about how brokers and agents are feeling about the medical loss ratio provision of PPACA. In two words: not happy. But what’s the flip side; the impact of MLR on human resources or benefits managers?

Self-insurance is the most cost-effective way for employers to provide health benefits, according to a new white paper from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute.

A poll shows that almost half of small-business employers are optimistic about economic improvement this year. This is a cautious optimism, however, as the majority also expressed concern about revenue and hiring plans for the next six months.