Wellness

When it comes to compensating and rewarding employees, more companies are going less traditional.

Ohio's Capitol building in Columbus will be a place for making laws and making drinks.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking.

Health insurer Humana Inc. says it will begin testing all Arizona job applicants for tobacco use, and those who light up won't get the gig.

When implementing workplace wellness programs, organizations have the right intentions; to offer a program that will help their employees live a healthier life and to limit medical costs to the organization. The problem is that too many organizations are sabotaging their own efforts without even knowing it. And it's no...

Employers are remodeling their benefits plans to give employees more power to manage their health care costs, retirement, financial security, and leave, according to a 2011 Employee Benefits Study from the Society for Human Resource Management.