Two recent court decisions in a retiree health care benefits age discrimination case are likely to bring changes to employer-sponsored retiree health care. After reviewing the cases and how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has responded to them, this article discusses employer implications. Although the court decisions add complexity to retiree health plan design, they also provide e...

The Independence Initiative is a Merseyside wide but Sefton based relapse prevention service that deals with clients who are recovering from drug misuse problems. We focus solely on one-to-one interaction in order to provide specifically tailored action plans for our clients. We provide a wide range of interventions including counselling, pre-vocational training, complementary therapies and inf...

OBJECTIVE To examine medical and mental health care expenditures for large numbers of individuals with diabetes enrolled in employment-sponsored insurance plans. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Health insurance billing data for approximately 1.3 million individuals enrolled in health insurance plans sponsored by 862 large self-insured employers nationwide were used to examine employer expenditure...

Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to compensate employees. Using 1996–201...

This research examines the rationality of the expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. Consistent with conjectures regarding entry into self-employment, I find substantial overoptimism in nascent entrepreneurs' expectations, in that they overestimate the probability that their nascent activity will result in an operating venture. Further, for those ventures that achieve operation, individuals ove...

EXECUTIVE Orders No. 11247 and No. 113751 require that federal contractors with a contract larger than $50,000 or with fifty or more employees develop and enforce a written plan of affirmative action that guarantees equal employment opportunity. Under these orders and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972,2 the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health, Education, and Welf...

This study identified the baseline participation rates for 101 teens and young adults ages 10-32 years old with a diagnosis of spina or lipomenigocele bifida in various domains: school, employment, community activities, physical activity and peer social relationships. The goal of the study was also to identify barriers to community participation. Our findings demonstrate that overall participat...

Many observers have noted that the long-term decline in labor-force participation by older Americans may reflect the evolution of social institutions that effectively discourage work. Often cited factors include employer discrimination against older workers, private pension plans that penalize continued employment, and the Social Security system. Various policies, such as eliminating Social Sec...

This study aims to relate subjective health and medical expenditure with depression secure basic data for a program manage of participants in senior employment based on the surveyed relationship. is descriptive research identify health, expenditure, examine factors employment. To this end, 472 people 60 years or more participated study. The household member were combined 14th year 2019 15th 202...