Your workers’ compensation insurance has been cancelled, now what? Does the following story sound familiar? So your company has now been in business for several years. You have made it past the startup period and have now hired several employees to join your company and now you take on workers’ compensation insurance to protect your company in […]
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The Affordable Care Act(Obamacare) has definitely changed the health insurance market and has left business owners wondering what to do? With increased healthcare rates, federal fines, and increased federal legislation, business owners are beginning to feel helpless and overwhelmed. It is hard enough for some employers to meet their weekly payroll and now they have […]
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Every business owner knows how their workers’ compensation premiums are calculated, right? You take your workers’ comp code, use the state mandated rate and multiply by the payroll amount for that code. You do that for every workers’ comp code and that gives you the total premium. A company establishes a premium modifier based on their past […]
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JUNE 19, 2014 By Arlene Weintraub at Entrepreneur Magazine When companies started exploring their options for complying with theAffordable Care Act a few years back, some likely considered not offering coverage at all, and instead sending their employees to the individual health exchanges with pre-tax money to help cover their premiums. Now that option is off […]
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By Jim T. RyanNovember 15, 2013 at 9:45 AM Central Penn Business Journal A slowly growing employment and business trend known as “co-employment” could make more inroads into Central Pennsylvania in years to come. But at the moment, few businesspeople even know what it is and how it could benefit companies. Simply put, co-employment is not […]
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Jan 10, 2014, 6:12am EST Orlando Business Journal Home Depot’s Bernie Marcus: America to get very hurt by Obamacare Enlarge Photo Bernie Marcus Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor The Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus says America hasn’t seen anything yet when it comes to the problems and additional costs Obamacare is going to deliver to middle-class America. In […]
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HR INSIGHTS, TALENT MANAGEMENT Making Time For Mentoring: It Can Contribute to Organizational Success by Laura Stack on Aug 27, 2013, 11:29 AM | 2 Comments inShare160 Readers tend to have one of two opinions on the value of mentoring inexperienced co-workers: either “it’s something that would be nice to do if only I had the time,” or “it’s a […]
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Bob Corlett, Contributing Writer Bix Journals Houston May 27, 2014, 7:32am CDT Updated: May 27, 2014, 10:19am CDT If you hire enough people, you are going to make a mistake from time to time. Maybe you busted your budget to woo a top performer away from another company only to find yourself six months later wondering what […]
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BY JASON MILLMAN May 21 Washington Post The typical cost of health care for a family of four with employer-based insurance this year is $23,215, according to a new report from the Milliman actuarial firm.The bad news first: That amount has more than doubled in the past 10 years. The goodish news: That cost grew just 5.4 percent between […]