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06Sep 2013 by William Simi

Healthcare Update

Starting October 1, 2013, all employers must provide written notification to their employees about their health insurance coverage options under the new healthcare laws to take effect in 2014. Employers can send this information via email or regular mail. Also, starting in 2014, employers will have 14 days from the date of hiring a new employee to provide this information to the new hire. There are model notices available from the Department of Labor at the links below: If you do not offer healthcare insurance to employees, go to: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/FLSAwithoutplans.pdf If you do offer healthcare insurance to employees, go to: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/FLSAwithplans.pdf You or your employees can go to www.healthcare.gov to learn more about the new law. As always, we will do our best to keep you up to date on…

16Aug 2012 by Fred Crooks

Getting Your Employees to Grow YOUR Company: Tool #4

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Use an Employee Suggestion Form! A suggestion is an idea that will benefit the business by solving a problem, reducing costs, improving operations or procedures, enhancing customer service, eliminating waste or spoilage, or making it a better or safer place to work. One of the most efficient and economical ways to gather new ideas is through the use of the people who know your operations intimately - your employees. Listening to and acting upon sensible employee suggestions presents the opportunity to improve profitability (many employee suggestions relate to wasteful practices and irrational policies) and at the same time increase the level of trust and teamwork within your business. At a time when businesses are paying consultants and advisors to find newer, better, and faster ways of doing things, sometimes the obvious…

05Oct 2011 by William Simi

How to Have Real Influence Over Your Workers’ Comp Costs

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This edition of our blog deals with Workers’ Compensation Insurance and the influence you as a business owner have on the cost of your premiums. Tom Bone is our guest author for this entry. Tom is an insurance broker and the host of the radio show “Insurance matters”. His radio show airs every Tuesday at 8 a.m. and the first Saturday of every month at 9:30 a.m. on-line Small Business Talk Radio. Please let us know your thoughts on this very important topic. If employers could have influence over their cost of workers’ compensation insurance, wouldn’t they want to know how? If insurance agents would help their employer clients lower their costs, wouldn’t that be a valuable service? Most employers consider the renewal date of their workers’ comp policy to…

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