Monday, August 12, 2013

Small Business Management - Managing Benefits

Benefits are one of the challenges facing human resource (HR) Professionals.  Benefit regulations is and ever-changing industry concerns. HR professionals should stay well-informed of government and state regulation changes and be sure to keep employees up-to-date through newsletter communication, etc. HR Professionals should review packages offered by other companies in the industry. 

There are no laws mandating health insurance, life insurance, vacation, or holidays except for the Service Contacts Act of 1965, which governs federal contractors. There are, federal laws regulating health benefits, retirement income, pension plans, and other benefits when they are provided.

As an employer, it is effective to adopt the approach of keeping healthcare cost under control in a number of ways. The approach includes increasing the share of premiums that employees pay, increasing deductibles and co-pays, and implement various  managed care strategies. 

Periodically review your current plan and establish whether the plan your company has in place is the best choice for your employees. Indemnity and managed care plans are:

·         Indemnity Plan
·         HMOs (Health Maintenance Organizations)
·         PPO (Preferred Provider Organization)
·         POS (Point-of-Service Plans)
·         Consumer Directed Plans

SBA has a great new small business healthcare assessment tool located at     http://www.sba.gov/healthcare.

Click here Healthcare Checklist Request to receive any of the below small business healthcare insurance Checklist to assess your current health care position. 
  • Healthcare Benefits Chechklist
  • Health Insurance Carrier Checklist
  • Health Insurance Cost Containment Checklist
  • COBRA Checklists
  • Worker's Compensation Insurance Checklist

Email or call with any HR or Business related questions. All4hrbiz@gmail.com   

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April D. Halliburton, President
All-4-HR & Business Solutions, LLC


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