Benefits Manager

Theres little doubt among most of us that obesity remains one of the greatest preventable threats to employee health and well being. Which also makes it one of the single greatest health care cost drivers.

Getting employees to be actively engaged in wellness has been a challenge to many organizations because the motivation to jump into the pool has been lacking on the part of workers in some instances. The age old question is How do you get people involved?

Half of millennials do not believe Social Security will still exist when they are ready to retire.

Younger Americans are more interested in having a guaranteed retirement income feature in their retirement savings plans than those 45 years of age or older, according to a LinkedIn poll conducted by Prudential Retirement.

Fifty percent of U.S. workers earned less than $26,364 last year, reflecting a growing income gap between the nation's rich and poor, the government reported Thursday.

Unemployment rates fell in half of U.S. states last month, a sign that September's pickup in hiring was felt around the country.

Employers can reduce higher medial costs due to unnecessary employee ER visits by better educating employees about their options, according to a recent survey conducted by Evive Health and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back health care coverage for future part-time workers while raising premiums for some full-time workers.