The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established in 1996 to provide safety and security for private medical data. The law requires healthcare administrators to keep individual information non-disclosed and in a secure database....
After more than three years of working toward a higher salary threshold for mandatory overtime pay, the U.S. Department of Labor recently finalized and released the details of its new rule.The Society of Human Resource Management reported that this new mandatory...
At many organizations, health care insurance coverage is a key benefit to attract and retain employees. Particularly in the current landscape, where the cost of health care services are increasingly on the rise, employers must ensure that they offer benefits that...
Many employees don't give the processes behind their paychecks a second thought. Money is simply sent, through check or direct deposit, on a regular basis, rewarding staff members for their hard work and effort during the pay period.However, in order to make this...
According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, colleges and universities in the U.S. expect to award more than 980,000 associate degrees, and nearly 2 million bachelor's degrees to graduates by the end of the 2019-2020 academic year....
A new rule could shake up the way employers and employees leverage their health reimbursement arrangement funds. The regulation, passed recently by the departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services, enables employers to leverage pretax money to...
