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...The Sony-backed group plans to keep Benefit One listed and it has already agreed to buy Pasona’s stake in the subsidiary....
...Sea has cut staff, and Grab has frozen employee recruitment....
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...Claire Cathcart, head of people at employee insurance provider YuLife, recently added a new status option for their company slack, “Not Feeling 100%”, for the days when you’re under the weather but still...
...Voya shares surged to a high after the group announced the December sale, which left the company focused on its three remaining business lines: retirement, investment management and employee benefits plans...
...Companies including Uber and Lyft are fighting to classify their workers as independent contractors, making them ineligible for employee benefits such as traditional unemployment insurance and paid sick...
...“The Biden administration has made clear that it supports a stronger test for employee classification, and not a weaker test.”...
...The group plans to separate its life insurance unit from its broader property and casualty business, a move that had been long demanded and long resisted....
...This has become one of China’s biggest online retailers and financial service providers, operating in the latter sphere through Ant Group....
...Only about half of insurance companies disclosed a low-carbon transition plan and only half of those companies were taking action with their underwriting portfolios, CDP said....
...“We moved from the adrenalin phase, to the real estate phase — ‘maybe we don’t need that office any more’ — to the adulatory phase: ‘Now we have a return plan!’”...
...It was a strategy adopted by FedEx in 2014 when it lost a similar employee-contractor court battle. “We have a game plan,” Khosrowshahi says. “Our intent is to keep operating, to comply with the law....
...(New York Times) News round-up Musk steps in to provide insurance for Tesla board (FT) + (Alphaville) Big banks to sell last of debt from T-Mobile’s Sprint takeover (FT) French markets regulator calls...
...It now makes the bulk of its money running 401(k) retirement plans and other employee benefits offerings. These services generate steady fees from captive assets....
...She was previously co-chair of Quinn Emanuel’s insurance and reinsurance litigation group....
...AIG is heading to the London courts on Monday to fight an attempt to make the insurance group pay more than $100m in crisis-era bonuses to 23 former staff....
...Its much larger rival Carnival raised $6.4bn through equity and debt in April, including a $430m stake from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, but still plans to lay off staff and cut pay....
...When a chief executive called a finance employee to demand they make an urgent $10m wire transfer to a supplier, that staffer promptly carried out the task, even though it went against the company’s protocols...
...China’s State Council decided in May to set up a group to lead employment measures and plans to bolster job training programmes using surplus funds from state insurance schemes....
...That has fuelled a perception that Germany Inc. remains a closed shop for insiders....
...The direct investment in JPMorgan comes after the bank and Berkshire teamed up with online retailer Amazon in a healthcare joint venture that they plan to use to cut their employee healthcare costs....
...The bet by James Gorman, the chief executive of Morgan Stanley, is that the privately held technology start-ups that have turned to Solium for back office help managing their employee stock plans will mint...
...Back in 1999, the annual premium for a family plan was just $5,791, with workers covering $2,196 of that....
...Healthcare costs in the US have skyrocketed in recent years, something that has driven up the cost of subsidising employee health insurance....
...Healthcare costs in the US have skyrocketed in recent years, something that has driven costs of subsidising employee health insurance rising in tandem....
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