Andrew Brickman

More employers are embracing the idea that a financially aware and secure employee is a happier, healthier and more productive individual.

Employers and advisers who still hew to a paper-based processing system incur costly errors, wasted staff time and poor healthcare decisions.

It is not unheard of for violations to cost a company millions of dollars plus attorney’s fees, one expert cautions.

Commentary: Since the Family and Medical Leave Act was signed into law in 1993, employee benefits administration and time-off tracking have never been the same.

How do you take stock of the hundreds of vendors of benefits administration, all there to help with enrollment and ongoing benefits management? A readiness self-assessment may help avoid some unnecessary steps.