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Employer-provided benefits costs for civilian workers in private industry and state and local governments in June 2008 averaged $8.64 per hour worked, accounting for 30.3% of total compensation costs, which averaged $28.48 per hour worked. Benefits as a percentage of compensation have risen in the past three years from 27.4% of total compensation, although costs have been relatively stable in the last year. These findings were among the data released in the June 2008 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation report, produced quarterly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):…
The Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury have released the 2008-2009 Priority Guidance Plan, which lists the tax issues that will be the subject of formal guidance during the upcoming year. The Priority Guidance Plan is developed based on consideration of suggestions from internal and external stakeholders, including taxpayers, tax practitioners, and industry groups. That input enables the IRS and the Treasury Department to focus legal resources on providing guidance on a broad range of issues that are important to taxpayers and tax administrators…
Those who design and administer employer-sponsored health care plans have concerns with both presidential candidates’ health care proposals, with almost three-fourths of respondents saying that the proposal of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to repeal the tax exclusion for employer-provided health coverage would have strong negative impact on American workers, and almost half of the respondents saying that the proposal of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) to compel employers to “pay or play” would have strong negative impact…
Criminal convictions for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s privacy rules have been obtained only in three cases involving employees of covered entities who improperly obtained protected health information, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reported to members of Congress in Enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, issued on August 11…
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Health care services offered at the worksite, although not prevalent, are popular with employees and valued by employers for successfully improving employee health and productivity, according to a survey recently conducted by Hewitt Associates. The Hewitt survey of 248 large and midsize companies found that employers continue to invest in employees’ health and productivity with the implementation of varied health-related programs addressing the whole range of health status. The worksite health programs are used frequently by employees…
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