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She works closely with global enterprises to address these challenges by identifying rising skills and occupations in their markets, assessing labor costs, and developing skill-based hiring and training plans.

Employees who are part of a collectively bargained plan may not be subject to the expanded plan eligibility rules that apply to long-term, part-time workers after two years of service.

Key Features Based on the demo, CEIPAL’s AI-based Diversity Assessment offers that critical first step — assessing a workforce distribution by gender and ethnicity.

;Determining equity award values based on the change in fair value for the year for both outstanding and vested equity (rather than at the date granted per the SCT).; When developing compensation actually paid for stock options, following the approach specified in the rule, a lattice model that bases future exercise and settlement expectations on the moneyness level of the option — instead of a time-based expected term — will be the best method in most cases, said O’Connor.

Consider providing financial planning resources to help team members reach their short- and long-term savings goals.

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The provisions potentially affecting Forms W-2 (including W-2AS, W-2GU and W-2VI) are: ;De minimis financial incentives (Section 113 of the SECURE 2.0 Act),;Roth Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) and Roth Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs) (Section 601 of the SECURE 2.0 Act), and;Optional treatment of employer nonelective or matching contributions as Roth contributions (Section 604 of the SECURE 2.0 Act).; For de minimis financial incentives , the SECURE 2.0 Act made changes designed to encourage employees to contribute to their employers’ 401(k) or 403(b) plans.

Workspan Magazine article;WorldatWork’s Salary Budget Survey , research; For Everyone Mercer Projects 3.6% Total Salary Increase Budgets in 2025 , Workspan Daily article;Report: 1 in 3 Organizations Don’t Have a Pay Equity Strategy , Workspan Daily article;Understanding Base Pay-for-Performance and Merit Increase Guidelines , on-demand webinar;Base Pay Administration and Pay for Performance , course; Giving managers discretion in the allocation of merit pay increases can be empowering for both the giver and receiver.

Among the findings: ;5% of plan participants account for 56% of total costs, and just 1% are responsible for 28%.; ;Claims once considered “high cost” at $50,000 now often start at $100,000, with multimillion-dollar claims increasingly common, driven by advanced treatments (e.g., gene therapy) or complex conditions (e.g., congenital disorders, transplants).; “Employers must take a more revolutionary approach to address both immediate cost pressures and long-term cost trends, especially since healthcare costs appear firmly on an upward trajectory,” said Courtney Stubblefield, a managing director within WTW’s health and benefits business unit.

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