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If it was not tough enough to keep up with the rapidly changing world of employee benefits plan designs, state and federal regulation, and cost containment strategies, agents and brokers have a whole new territory to learn: technology. Competition continues to become more intense for agents and brokers who are trying to specialize in employee benefits. Agents and brokers who have avoided dealing with the technology of benefits delivery and administration are already at a disadvantage. Agents and brokers who do not choose among employee benefits technology vendors as business partners may want to develop their own technology services -- or run the risk of falling out of contention. CheckpointHR began providing Internet-based human-resource management systems five years ago and has contin...
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SELECT COMPLIANCE DEADLINES AND REMINDERS
Cycle B Submission Period Opens February 1, 2012
Effective February 1, 2012, the Internal Revenue Servic...
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Just when we thought we might be witnessing some sustained growth in the economy, the world comes crashing down around our ears again....
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SELECT COMPLIANCE DEADLINES AND REMINDERS
Cycle B Submission Period Opens February 1, 2012
Effective February 1, 2012, the Internal Revenue Serv...
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Editor's Note
On 9 December 2010 the Treasury issued further draft and updated legislation regarding a number of pension-related matters. A radical ...
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I am a small business owner in the private sector. I do not have several weeks of paid leave time. I do not get off for every holiday, specifically Columbus Day, President's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Veterans Day or any other "government" holiday.
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Employers increasingly turn over responsibility for managing retirement, leave and health care benefits to employees
LAS VEGAS, June 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The economy negatively affected the employee benefits offered by more than three- quarters of organizations, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey report released today at its 63rd Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.
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In the midst of an anemic economic recovery, financial executives are evaluating every budget item closely, and employee benefits are no exception. As...
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Service Provider Fee Disclosure Deadline
As reported in Reinhartʼs February 2012 Employee Benefits Update, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued fi...