Benefits Manager

Opponents of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, spurred by anger over his successful push to remove nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers, blanketed Wisconsin on Tuesday to launch an unprecedented effort to gather 540,000 signatures and force a recall election.

Current and former Walmart workers are using Occupy Wall Street camps to voice their frustration over recent benefit cuts and to show how Walmart heirs are the faces of the "1%."

Drug shortages in the U.S. are limited primarily to generic injectables and a few key disease areas, according to an IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics study released Monday.

An ever-increasing trend points to the fact that many individuals do not understand the role that they play individually in the health care crisis. Likewise, many employers do not effectively communicate this story to their employees in a positive and empowering way. This lack of clear communication can undermine the...

Forty-five percent of employers believe educating employees on benefits is a top priority among management, as more senior leaders are taking on advocate roles, according to the Employee Benefits Accountability and Consumerism 2011 survey by WorldatWork.

Lets be clear: Im not a human resource professional. I know, I know...I should have brought this up sooner. I didn't mean to lead you on, but trust me, you dont want a journalist anywhere near all those confidential files.

Employers need to act now to get younger employees interested in saving for retirement via defined-contribution plans, according to a new study by Northern Trust.

More than 20 cents of each revenue dollar for employers are going toward health care costs that are undermanaged, according to the nonprofit Center for Health Value Innovations Health Value Accelerator, an online tool that creates a value-based benefit design centering on both engagement and accountability.