While pay and job security remain essential to employee satisfaction, trust, open communication, professional development, and company reputation play an increasingly important role, according to a study by Ultimate Software. In fact, these factors were […]
Eighty-nine percent of workers (from entry-level to executive) prefer to work outside of the office at least one day a week, according to a study by DialPad and Altimeter. The Work from Anywhere movement is […]
Governor Brown signed the California Association of Health Underwriters’ top priority bill AB 72 (Bonta/Wood/Bonilla/Dahle/Gonzalez/Maienschein). AB 72 is bi-partisan consumer protection legislation aimed at protecting health care consumers from unexpected balance billing when they are […]
Covered California announced the rates and expansion plans for its small group health insurance exchange. The statewide weighted average rate increase is 5.9%, for employers and their employees beginning Jan. 1, 2017, which is down […]
Small business owners are finding that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has decreased the appeal of health care benefits to employees and increased the importance of a retirement plan, according to a recent survey conducted on […]
Many health insurers are turning their attention to off-exchange individual plan membership as more consumers withdraw from the exchanges, according to a report by Mark Farrah Associates. Although 4.9 million new members enrolled the exchanges […]
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