Tag Archive For "company health insurance"
Coronavirus (COVID-19): employer’s duty and obligation to protect their employees
During this pandemic, protecting the health of employees is an employer’s sole responsibility. Employees that are still working and fulfilling their responsibilities, from key workers like frontline healthcare professionals and emergency responders, to those working in supermarkets, grocers, pharmacies, factories, transportation, construction, sanitation, and other essential workplaces, must be protected from contracting the virus. In …
What is your love language at work?
Do you feel like your supervisor appreciates you? What about your coworkers? It’s no secret that employees who feel appreciated perform better. However, expressing appreciation isn’t always that straightforward. Appreciation has to be conveyed in a way that the person it’s being directed to finds meaningful. While many people are familiar with The Five Love …
How can companies contain health insurance costs?
An executive order that was signed by President Donald Trump on 24th June has made history, with impending benefits for businesses and individuals alike. The official order is destined to give American consumers more information about the cost and quality of health-care services. This will allow consumers to make better choices with more apparent price …
The importance of an employee reward and recognition programme
Maintaining a healthy employer-employee relationship requires mutual respect and open communication, which have to be shown through actions instead of expressed via empty words. One does not have to wait until Valentine’s day to show their love to their significant others, and the same goes for employers, for it would usually be too late to …
How can HR and corporate managers assist employees overseas?
In this increasingly global business world, the advantages of working abroad are often emphasized. Indeed, it is an invaluable experience for an employee to experience different cultures, enhance their resumes, and brush up on their language skills. On the contrary, however, the downsides to sending employees to a foreign country are not discussed as frequently. …
Announcing the release of Cost of International Health Insurance Report – 2018
Pacific Prime is proud to present our latest report – the Cost of International Health Insurance Report for Individuals and Families 2018; a welcome addition to our collection of professional industry reports. Now in its fourth iteration, this free report, as with previous versions, addresses the average cost of International Private Medical Insurance (IPMI) in …
Part time employee benefits: three reasons to extend perks to staff with non-standard hours
One of the key areas in our industry that gets very little attention is that of part time employee benefits. Part time and casual workers have long been features of every developed labor market in the world, and their numbers have been growing in the past decade – often at the expense of full-time employment. …
Challenges for Businesses Implementing Group Health Insurance Plans in 2018
We’re still at the start of 2018, but if this coming year is anything like the past couple of years, it’s going to be a big one for small business. For example, the number of new job seekers taking it upon themselves to start their own business at the end of 2016 was the highest …
Employee Benefits Plans: Important things to remember when structuring
If you are a Human Resources professional, or otherwise administer your company’s group health insurance plan, it can oftentimes feel overwhelming. It’s hard enough to keep up for those that have been dealing with employee health insurance for years. This group no doubt already has learned many of the ins and outs of obtaining, managing …
Silver Tsunami Survival: Aging Populations and Your Business
Over the past few decades the world has seen a trend that is both good and bad: People are living longer than ever before. This mass aging in many developing and developed countries is often referred to as the ‘silver tsunami’ due to its far-reaching and unavoidable nature. “How could this be a bad thing?” …
