RENEE KUHS
Compliance Attorney

When I talk to employers about 5500 filing requirements, more often than not they tell me their accountant files their 5500 filings and they are compliant.  These employers are no doubt referring to the 5500 filing requirements applicable to their 401(k) or retirement plans.  While I don’t practice in this area, it appears that the financial institutions which service 401(k)s and retirement plans are very familiar with this highly regulated area and have adapted by providing their clients with all the services they need to comply, including filing the 5500s filings associated with these plans.

Transportation companies who have controlled their driver turnover (one of the biggest wicked problems in the industry) recognize that closing the back door is as important as opening the front door.  If you are going to be successful in retaining drivers, then you need to understand the reasons drivers are leaving their jobs, both at your company and at your competitors’ companies. 

“Medical tourism” is a concept that every benefits professional has heard of, but is difficult to implement in practice.  The idea of asking employees to travel across the globe to get procedures done in many cases isn’t really realistic.

BOB GREG
Boardman & Clark LLP

ANDREA TARRELL
Marketing Director

Communicating employee benefits and wellness programs can feel like pulling teeth.  It’s incredibly challenging for benefits professionals to get their employees to a) listen b) care c) understand.

As a partner to a lot of companies in and involved with the transportation industry, we wanted to dedicate a blog post to share some information about an organization called Truckers Against Trafficking that drives awareness about human trafficking and the thousands of young children that are being kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery.  

Would you be prepared for a compliance review if the FMCSA or State Patrol came into your facility today?  With the new auditing process, compliance reviews aren’t the same as they used to be.

ANDREA TARRELL
Marketing Coordinator

Social media is a hot topic on anyone’s list these days. But would you trust Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to get information about your health care needs?  A third of healthcare consumers in the United States report they regularly do this, according to a recent study by the PwC Health Research Institute.