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Fidelity to Offer Bitcoin Option on 401(k) Plans According to the Washington Post , Fidelity Investments will soon have a bitcoin option on its 401(k) plans, making the nation’s largest provider of such workplace retirement accounts the first to wade into the highly volatile crypto landscape.

Republican Lawmakers Warn Against Rise in ERISA Lawsuits The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP) recently held a hearing to examine the rise in class-action lawsuits against ERISA plans and their impact on American retirement plan participants.

Rather than focusing exclusively on base salary, your hiring strategy can include variable compensation elements like signing bonuses, equity grants or performance incentives tailored to candidate preferences and market demands.

The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.6 hours.; Meta Executives See Up to 200% Bonuses in New Plan Meta executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary, up from the 75% they earned previously, under a new plan that was approved by one of the company’s board of director committees on Feb. 13.

Contributing factors include long work hours, the lack of a national paid parental leave policy and return-to-work challenges for new mothers .

The company wants to ensure that employees are not focused only on the cash rewards such as base salary (i.e., tangible rewards), but that they also believe in the company’s long-term vision and want to be a part of its culture.

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Main Drivers For 2026, the highest projected rate of increase for health benefit plan cost is expected to be prescription drugs at 11%, mostly due to more plans covering GLP-1 medications .

PAY TRANSPARENCY DRIVES PERFORMANCE PAY A long time ago, pay was confidential.