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By Rebecca Mayo, J.D. and WK Editorial Staff — Testing and vaccination for COVID-19 must be provided at no cost to individuals, however there is no federal mandate requiring insurers to waive out-of-pocket treatment costs for COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, the majority of private health plans waived out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment, but a survey […]
Continue reading …Nearly three fourths of all private insurers have discontinued waiving treatment cost-sharing in the wake of effective vaccines becoming widely available, according to new research from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Federal law requires all private insurance plans to cover the entire cost associated with approved COVID-19 testing so long as the test is deemed medically appropriate. Additionally, […]
Continue reading …By Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org. August 20, 2021 — Employees at Nabisco’s flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker’s other U.S. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and the withdrawal of a company plan that would scrap the company’s […]
Continue reading …By Elizabeth Weil — The first time ProPublica traveled to Thermal, California, in June 2020, the temperature happened to be 114 degrees, and we felt stupefied, literally unable to think. Everyplace, here in the eastern Coachella Valley, looked gorgeous … for 20 minutes at dusk. Nothing was beautiful at midday. The difference between the watered […]
Continue reading …New York – August 23, 2021 — More than half of the American workforce is contemplating job hunting in the next 12 months, a survey from Bankrate.com shows. Just ahead of Labor Day, this tidbit of the mass dissatisfaction among American workers, a new Bankrate.com survey finds more than half of Americans (55%) who are […]
Continue reading …BETHLEHEM, PA — College graduate starting salaries for the Class of 2020 college graduates rose 2.5 percent to $55,260 compared with the Class of 2019, despite the pandemic, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). NACE’s Summer 2021 Salary Survey shows a gain of 8.5% percent from the […]
Continue reading …Unemployment insurance benefits cuts did not force people back to work, research by the Economic Policy Institute found. The July state employment and unemployment data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed that the strong job growth reported earlier this month in the national jobs data was widespread throughout the country. And, notably, the states that chose not to cut pandemic […]
Continue reading …WALTHAM, MA (June 23, 2021) – Employees want to maintain the option to work remotely post-pandemic and will not tolerate being compensated less for remote work, according to new survey data from Salary.com. The Salary.com Remote Work & Compensation Pulse Survey of both employees and employers, conducted in May 2021, found 48% percent of employees […]
Continue reading …As new information about the Delta variant emerges, authorities announce initiatives, incentives and mandates. This analysis by Dr. Jeff Levin-Scherz, Population Health Leader, Health and Benefits, North America, for Willis Towers Watson’s clinical response to COVID-19, provides a thorough outline to this emerging pandemic threat. Scherz is a practicing physician and is an Assistant Professor […]
Continue reading …ARLINGTON, VA, August 25, 2021 — Hiring and retention struggles for many employers will persist into 2020, a new survey finds. That’s the conclusion of a survey of 380 employers by leading global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson. Employers are implementing initiatives including boosting salaries, increasing workplace flexibility, placing a greater focus on […]
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