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The 10 Commandments Of Salary Negotiations
While exploring new career options, I asked two neighbors who had made recent job changes what percentage pay increase they received. I was surprised when one told me 39%. When the second said his new salary was 46% higher, I realized that increases in job changing weren't limited to the 5% to 10% usually given for internal promotions and cost-of-living raises.
Consumer Driven Health Benefits vs. Plans
Health care costs are one of the biggest expenses companies are facing today. Some may feel this is an opportunity for consumers to manage their care. Is it? Or, is it simply a matter of the cost of care becoming the burden of the consumer rather than the employer?
Selecting the Right Coverage for International Assignees
International benefits are complex and can present pitfalls even to veteran benefits managers. Many valid assumptions made when selecting domestic benefits simply do not apply in the international realm and can lead to costly errors. To assist in avoiding these errors, here is a template for creating an effective international benefits strategy.
COBRA - Are You Compliant? 
There?s more to COBRA than sending a letter to the departing employee offering the option to continue health insurance coverage under your group health plan.
Wellness Programming on a Shoestring Budget
With the rising cost of health care, employers are looking for creative ways to ensure the health and well being of their employees. A wellness program can bolster employee health, as well as contribute to employee retention, and does not need to break the bank.
What's Ailing our Health Care System?
With health care premiums continuing to rise, many companies are turning to Consumer Directed Health Plans to compensate for the increases.
Thank You, IRC
For nearly a century, the Internal Revenue Code has created incentives for employers to offer benefit programs and employees to take advantage of the offering, often on a tax free basis. It's a practice that is sure to continue.
NEHRA's Boston Cost of Living Impact Survey
Hurricane Warning
Despite the fact that we, as Americans, are growing older, many of us are still unaware of the risks associated with living a long life and are misinformed as to what LTC is not, what it is, who or what pays for it and what costs are covered.
Variable Cash Compensation: What Companies Are Doing in 2005
The study was commissioned by the New England Compensation Consortium and includes data from companies based in the New England region.
Will Your Employee Have Enough Gold for Their Golden Years?
How can an employee improve their chances of having enough gold for their golden years? How and why should an employer help them with retirement planning?
Global Compensation Practices Survey Brief
WorldatWork and Watson Wyatt Worldwide conducted a global compensation
survey to establish a benchmark for U.S. multinationals in three key areas: global compensation
structure and strategy, global tools and systems, and global compensation targets and vehicles.
Same Gender Marriage and the Workplace
The following information pertains to workplace implications of same-gender marriage. These resources (links, surveys, articles) were complied by NEHRA's GLBT and Friends Special Interest Group.
Value of new CEO stock options grants declined sharply between 2001 and 2003
Increase in Value of In-The-Money Unexercised Stock Options Softens Loss, Watson Wyatt Analysis Finds
Start Paying Attention to Employee Plans-- or Lose Assets
A Checklist for Kicking the Tires on a Firm's Retirement Plan
NEHRA Benefits e-Survey Results
NEHRA recently reached out to both members and non-members with a Benefits e-survey. The survey questions were developed by NEHRA's Benefit's Special Interest Group. Click here to read the results.
Managing Health Care Costs: Back to Basics
The cost of employer-sponsored health care benefits continues to increase at an alarming rate.In order to effectively manage health care costs, employers must adopt a broad range of tactics that are configured and prioritized based on the unique demographics, population health status, culture and objectives of each employer.
Best Practices in Benefit Cost Control
Published: December 2003
Managing Health Care Costs Through Behavior Change
For the third year in a row, Watson Wyatt survey results show that increases in health care costs continue at unacceptable levels. Rising costs impact companies' balance sheets and erode employee satisfaction requiring benefit managers to explore alternative approaches to manage escalating expenses.
Executive Summary: 2003 Northeast Human Resources Association Survey of Exempt and Nonexempt Compensation
This custom report, made by BLR for NEHRA members, is a summary of BLRs 2003 Wage & Salary Survey results. Survey data has been customized to reflect NEHRA members regional state information (MA, RI, CT, NH, ME, and VT) and information for the state of Massachusetts, home of a majority of NEHRA members.
Sales Compensation: Getting It Right
When compared to other pay plans, sales compensation seems to have the most "noise." Here are ten design tips that can help you create an effective sales compensation program.
Job Leveling Trends: A Balanced Approach
The trend toward job leveling versus market pay is a hot topic. In the last decade, we've seen the pendulum swinging from an internal equity focus (early-mid 90s) to a pure market focus (dot.com era) and now we're in the middle of the continuum of pay approaches, seeing a return to balancing internal equity and competitive market focus. Job leveling strategy takes into consideration job "roles," leveling guides, market pricing and more.
Centers for Disease Control, SARS Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides basic information about Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)disease and what is being done to combat its spread.
SARS Means Changes in the Workplace, by Business & Legal Reports, Inc.
As the United States begins to confront the threat of the SARS virus, businesses in this country are also beginning to grapple with the very real issues raised by SARS fear and infection.
U.S. Department of Labor,
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA has developed this Information Regarding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) to provide relevant and timely information regarding this illness to employers, employees, and other interested parties. OSHA may update this information as additional information concerning SARS becomes available.
HIPAA Electronic Security Regs Are Final by: Seyfarth Shaw
Minimizing Fiduciary Risk: Your Responsibilities In Overseeing 401(k) Plan Assets
Employers across the country are talking about the potential landmine created by two commonly misunderstood words: fiduciary liability. This article will provide you with an understanding of federal regulations as well as identify opportunities to minimize potential risk.
Truths, Near Truths and Benefit Costs
A show of hands, please. Who knows if their company benefit costs are reasonable and if so, by what measure? The answer requires an understanding of prior period costs, acknowledgment of business changes and appreciation of employee demographics. Consider too, whether benefits are in sync with employee needs and lifestyle.
Moving Beyond Spreadsheets: Controlling Costs and Improving Productivity with eCompensation
Today, managing compensation in most organizations is paper-intensive and requires excessive time from managers and HR professionals. The electronic spreadsheet is still the tool of choice, even though swapping files and data often produces needless errors and costly rework.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Impact on 401(k) Plan Transactions by: Seyfarth Shaw
The Act was primarily intended to address fraud in financial reporting and lack of oversight by self-interested senior corporate management. Much attention has been focused on the portions of the Act requiring the CEO and CFO to certify their companys financial results and restricting loans to executive offices and directors (including the impact on cashless exercises).
Technology Big Bang For Compensation & Benefit Professionals
Regulation Of Employee Benefit Plans By The Department Of Labor Under ERISA AND COBRA
The provisions of Title I of ERISA cover most private sector employee benefit plans. Employee benefit plans are voluntarily established and maintained by an employer, an employee organization, or jointly by one or more such employers and an employee organization.
Skill Based Pay
Skill Based Pay (SBP) is a pay delivery system designed to reward employees with an increase in pay rate as they demonstrate they have attained additional skills.
Flexible Benefit Plans
A flexible benefit plan (or cafeteria plan) is any plan that allows participants to choose some or all of their benefits.
Linking Pay Increases To Company Performance
Industry is faced with increased pressure to be profitable at a time when recessionary influences are causing challenges that require creative solutions.
Software Compensation Depends Largely on Geography
The compensation of computer software professionals is much more equity-weighted for those working near the West Coast than their contemporaries in the eastern United States, where companies tend to bestow higher cash compensation to their top programmers.
Coalitions Aim To Cut Health Costs, Improve Quality
Companies are joining coalitions and purchasing groups not just to cut healthcare costs but to improve quality for their employees.
Creative Ways To Recognize Employees
Some companies define employee rewards only in terms of a paycheck and compensation. I think more progressive companies include those things but go beyond them into employee recognition. Recognition is an acknowledgment of good employee behavior.
When Employees Work Shifts, HR Needs 24-Hour Strategy
Twenty-four-hour-a-day business needs 24-hour-a-day HR management. Good HR strategy provides employees who work evenings, nights or weekends with access to the services they need at times convenient for them.
Domestic Partner Benefits - Moving To The Mainstream
Historically, benefits models have relied upon the institution of marriage and the definition of the traditional family to determine eligibility for benefits.
