Benefit plans designed around utilization management practices may look good on paper, but they often come at a high price to employees and their employers.
Here's how many employers were requiring workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the Supreme Court ruling—and here's what that means for HR leaders.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for employers, a ruling that leaves vaccine decisions in the hands of employers nationwide and may complicate safe return-to-workplace plans as COVID infections reach all-time highs. Justices ruled 6-3 that the administration cannot enforce its sweeping rule that employers with 100 or more […]
We are all disappointed to read another pandemic column, but it continues to be the hot topic. At the moment the particular issue is employer vaccine mandates, which raises some of the toughest human resource judgment calls. And the federal vaccine-or-testing mandate that the Supreme Court invalidated this week did not change employers' choices here […]