What’s the best way to respond when an employee brings you another offer and asks for a counter?
Is it ever worth making one, or do you believe it's better to let them move on?
Is it fair for companies to offer higher salaries to employees who negotiate, even if it creates pay gaps for the same role?
Looking for insight on negotiation culture and whether companies should take more responsibility for ensuring equal pay.
Is it fair to offer different benefits to different levels of employees?
Should executives and higher-level employees receive better benefits than entry-level employees, or should benefits be equal across all levels? What are your thoughts?
Enrollment Window
The new hire enrollment window seems to only apply when an employee is added to the portal for the first time. It would be helpful for the enrollment window to apply to terminated employees that are reinstated with a new hire date, OR employees that were
Would you rather accidentally share leadership’s compensation package with the entire company OR you must keep it confidential that your favorite coworker will be laid off?
Share your thoughts!
I’m offering a competitive salary, good employee benefits and perks, but I still can’t seem to find a strong and qualified candidate for the role. What should I do?
Has anyone else experienced this, and what steps did you take? Please share your thoughts.
How to know if your work benefits package is a good one?
Looking for ways to be competitive and find out how we even compare. Thanks!
What are the 4 pillars of a total rewards strategy?
I am creating a new benefits package and want to know what is most important for a robust, comprehensive, and attractive benefits package.
Offer Overview / Prior Offer missing important detail.
When viewing the Offer Overview for a subgroup you see the Prior/Current/Upcoming Offers side by side. Clicking the links take you to the Plan View, which you can always see under the plan list... it would be more helpful to see how the plan was setup
Marital Status
On the page where an employee adds their dependent information, I believe that Spouse is not the right title. This individual could be a domestic partner and the employee should be able to indicate such on this page using a field that could be more easily
Age Banded Premium Uploads
I would like the Bernie Operations team to be able to upload age banded rate files instead of having to cut and paste 51 rates per plan. It is too slow and error prone to both enter and proof.
Allow Renewal Dates to be on the 15th of a Month
We have several groups that renew on the 15th of a month, but this is not an option in BP. Would love to have that option. Also option to allow 1 Open Enrollment for 2 effective dates that are within a month of each other.
Masquerading- Service Team Sign Off
There should be an option to click a button for Admin Approval instead of e-signing when Service Team/Employer Masquerades as an Employee to make elections. Have has people concerned that their signature was being "forged".
EOI Triggered by Age
We need BP to allow for an age limit triggering EOI. I recently had a new employee enrollment that enrolled his spouse on VTL and AD&D. EOI was triggered because the contract states any spouse over 60 is subject to EOI.
force waiver/enrollment window
Hey- love the new enrollment window feature, but I now understand that it closes out 30 days after the hire date. That seems a weird way to set it up with the majority of employer groups having first of the month following (30 or 60 day) waiting period.
Ability to show monthly vs per pay period cost during open enrollment
This came up from a group that changed to semi-monthly (24) pay periods after we started Open Enrollment but was originally set up for Open Enrollment as Monthly. It would be nice for the employees to have the ability to switch between per pay period
I need to brainstorm benefits that won’t break the bank. We already offer pet insurance. What type of budget-friendly benefits do you offer?
The pet insurance is super popular haha, but I need more to offer that isn’t intensive or expensive.
How do you remind people to use PTO? Or avoid them using it all at the same time?
I have had EIGHT!!! People that work the same shift request off for the same week in July. I'm ready to riot. Any advice welcome.
100% Employer Paid Plans & COBRA
Currently if you have a Non-contributory ancillary plan (Dental/Vision), it will show as 100% Employer Paid when a former employee is enrolling in COBRA. Unless I'm missing something, it means you need to create two separate Dental plans: One that's ER
EOI approval - change to allow a different amount for approval if Carrier approves a different amount
If carrier approves an amount other than the requested amount it would be very helpful to enter the accepted amount instead of just the current 2 options of accept/deny.
How far into the interview process do you share benefits information?
We would like candidates to know what we have to offer but don't want to overload ourselves with questions too early.
Spousal Surcharge default setting be group choice
My group charges a spousal surcharge. The automatic default to the question of does your spouse have access to employer health coverage is NO. This should be a choice for the group if default to yes or no. People DO NOT READ, they are breezing over that
Cancel Correct Mistake or Qualifying Event
Employers will occasionally open up elections with a "Correct mistake" or "Qualifying event" by mistake, or realize after the fact that no updates actually need to be made. It would be nice to either be able to cancel the reopened elections, or have the
Voluntary disability amount option
It would be great to have the voluntary disability default to the maximum amount of coverage rather than the minimum. The employee just sees the $300.00 minimum and chooses instead of dragging the bar to the 60% Maximum.. This happens very often and is
Comparing premiums side-by-side
It would help employees to make enrollment decisions if they could see plan premiums side-by-side when enrolling. For example, if there are 3 health plans being offered, being able to compare premiums between the health plans on the same screen would
Make all emails notifications available in the Email settings area
Currently there are certain emails that will go to the Account Owner and employees that aren't listed in the Email settings area. For example, these following actions will generate an email notification and go out to the Account Owner and employee: Salary
Enrollment Status for COBRA Waivers
Eligible employees that WAIVE all COBRA coverage should stay in "Terminated" status instead of moving to "COBRA" status. It will provide an easier way to identify active COBRA members that are enrolled in COBRA coverage.
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