Driving Year-Round Employees’ Benefit Engagement and Cost Savings

Join us for this special event with SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP; Cara McNulty, President of Behavioral Health and Wellbeing at Aetna, a CVS Health Company; and 23-time Gold Medalist, mental health advocate and Talkspace Ambassador Michael Phelps. They discuss the disconnect on mental health between workers and employers, and the need for employers to care for the whole employee. You will also learn about: The need to destigmatize mental health issues. What it means to care for the whole person. How employers can offer modern family benefits to support working parents and caregivers.

As factors like the Great Resignation, hybrid and remote work, and health care consumerism continue to take center stage, organizations must develop (or refresh) an infrastructure capable of supporting a virtual workforce. It also is essential for organizations to maintain a personal connection with employees as they navigate their way through another annual enrollment season. Employers can deliver a virtual yet personal benefits experience - both during annual enrollment and year-round - to their workforce with the right combination of innovative tools and technologies and engaging communication strategies. In this program, HR, employee benefits and communication expert Candace Jodice, Vice President of HR Benefits at CVS Health, and Tanya Mulqueen, Communication Practice Director at bswift, share their thoughts and recommendations for employers navigating the evolving work and benefits landscape.

In the day-to-day busy-ness, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that employees are actually people. Losing the personal touch in HR, employees begin to feel like numbers on a spreadsheet rather than a valued individual human. While many want to maintain that human connection it’s no surprise it falls by the wayside. There is so much time is spent with tedious, repetitive, and administrative tasks. We simply have no time to build relationships with employees, let alone focus on a strategy to do so.

Get a firm grasp of HIPAA laws and how recent changes apply to your workplace. HIPAA is more important than ever. With both data breaches and HHS penalties on the rise, HR specialists need a firm grasp of the law and its implications for their workplace and health plan. This topic will describe the history of the law and recent changes under the HITECH Act, how the law applies in the workplace and with respect to the employer-sponsored health plans, what employers need to know to stay in compliance, and what happens when there is a data breach. HR specialists should walk away from the webinar understanding what they need to do to protect their company from steep HIPAA penalties.