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Stress building for federal workers not receiving paychecks

Restaurants and others are pitching in by offering free or ... Though the government has assured federal workers that they will receive back pay, it doesn’t help solve the immediate problem of coping ... read more

Obama Reform Sidesteps Health Costs

the tax exclusion for employer-paid health insurance might be curbed. Obama downplays the obstacles. His "reform" isn't likely to compel needed changes, partly because it's not clear what will work. E... read more

Desperate For Labor, Retailers Offer Workers More Hours

“A lot of the power is in their hands, and the employer has to bend ... insurance policy? Do I want to have the income coming in? Do I want to have my company paying for my health insurance?” Even for ... read more

State and Local Leaders are Setting an Agenda for the Country’s Biggest Challenges

And still others like NewDEAL Leader and South Bend ... of workers in the gig economy by proposing portable benefits that recognize the growing number of temporary and contract employment opportunitie... read more

Compensation and Benefits for Startup Companies

One service company in the startup stage adopted an insurance-backed salary plan for its ... disclosed that employees preferred a much different benefit: employer-paid membership at a local health clu... read more

17 for ‘17: Top Tampa Bay business stories of the year

After building up strong reserves in the non-hurricane years, state-run Citizens Property Insurance ... workers — one Tampa Electric employee and five contractors — were tasked with removing a build-u... read more

Old National Bancorp's CEO Hosts Annual Shareholders' Meeting Conference (Transcript)

It didn't [work] our strategy although when we acquired Integra branches, [Bancorp] branches now (inaudible) when our company unlikely the another bank in country, another one in Chicago. When we see ... read more

FICA Tax Deductions

Understanding what the FICA tax deductions from your paycheck are and how they ... First, you won’t have to pay FICA taxes on employer-paid health insurance benefits. This only applies to health insur... read more

Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now Part Two

Productivity gains are hard to achieve ... if modest recent victories by workers in these fields, but avers that such successes have come despite the distance of these workplaces—in the case of retail ... read more

More U.S. Workers Have Highly Volatile, Unstable Incomes

As Andrew Stettner, Michael Cassidy and George Wentworth point out in their new report, A New Safety Net for an Era of Unstable Earnings, what all these workers have in common are highly volatile, uns... read more

How to build a better lunch in Milwaukee: Lower East Side edition

When you consistently have work lunches or are constantly eating out ... but you don't want to be weighed down by food that causes weight gain and health issues down the road. We've already discussed ... read more

President Obama Uses Bully Pulpit To Push Economy That Works For Workers

Such structural changes would come atop existing rules that are supposed to protect working people from bosses so fixated on minimizing their labor costs that they are willing to bend or break ... lik... read more