Tag: FAQ

eLearning

8 Instructional Design Tips for E-Learning

The e-learning industry is projected to be worth around $325 billion within the next half decade—and for very good reason. E-learning initiatives lead to increased employee retention rates, increased revenues, and more, and nearly all (98%) companies will invest in e-learning by next year, especially digital and video content, according to one company’s research.

Tips for Better Recruiting Efficiency

In yesterday’s Advisor, we talked about the benefits of improving recruiting efficiency and looked at efficiency tips across three aspects of the recruiting process. Today we’re continuing that list. Here are efficiency tips across three more aspects of the recruiting process.

Defined benefit retirement plan

PBGC Removes Change in Credit Quality as Possible Trigger for Early Warning Program Review

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in early May clarified guidance issued in late 2016 about its Early Warning Program (EWP), explaining that the program had not been expanded and such a review for an employer’s defined benefit (DB) retirement plan would not be triggered solely by a change in credit quality.

Q&A: Remote Workers and Employment Authorization

The HR Daily Advisor has thoroughly explored how the new administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies mean that employers should prepare for more workplace audits and other related activities. Today I’ve brought our Q&A about how that might influence I-9s and other authorizations for remote workers to the Recruiting Daily Advisor. By Holly Jones

Senior HR Exec? Apply to Attend THRIVE HR Leadership Exchange

The THRIVE HR Leadership Exchange is BLR’s expense-paid gathering of top HR execs, held this year September 25-27 at the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Arizona. The event will focus on the challenges, problems, and solutions to today’s top HR concerns. This event is limited to senior HR executives from organizations with at least […]

communication

Second DOL FAQ on Fiduciary Rule Addresses Questions About Fiduciary Communications

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released the second set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) for retirement plan professionals on the agency’s complex new fiduciary rule just days before the end of the Obama administration in an effort to answer plan practitioners’ questions about how the rule draws lines between fiduciary and nonfiduciary communications, education, and advice.

I-9 Completion—A Tricky (but Important!) Subject

By Holly Jones, JD The I-9 form is one of the most crucial parts of legal compliance in hiring. It’s important that your Human Resources (HR) staff is trained to do it right, because one wrong step can result in hefty fines. Here with some of the ins and outs of I-9s is an analysis […]