What this service is:

Accurate answers and practical guidance make this service your most powerful tool to design, analyze, compare, administer, and communicate compensation and benefits programs that comply with legal requirements.

What it helps you do:

• Find out about new industry trends and practices and how to implement them using practical reference information. Special planning and design tools, sample forms and policies, and at-a-glance comparison charts help you tackle day-to-day and long-term administrative challenges -- and keep track of them.
• Determine whether a program or benefit is right for your organization with detailed discussions of pro's and con's, complete with real-life examples.
• Organize and prioritize your work better with results-oriented information written in clear language -- much more than a restatement of statutes and regulations.
• See where your programs and benefits stand in an industry-wide context with descriptions of current surveys and relevant economic data.
• Boost your productivity, expedite research, and speed through your responsibilities!
• Improve communications and handle a wide range of inquiries from employees and colleagues with expert analysis and full-text agency documents. Answer questions on compensation, pensions and retirement, and health and welfare benefits.
• Comply with regulatory requirements, presented in plain English and linked to the language of the rules themselves.
• Have the full text of the most significant statutes and regulations affecting compensation and benefits at your fingertips, including the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regs, ERISA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Medicare Secondary Payer Act, and many more.
• Stay alert to regulatory changes and other important news and developments with the biweekly newsletter, Benefits & Compensation Management Update , included with your subscription.
• Get the most complete compensation and benefits solution with new content collections featuring Total Rewards, Fast Answers, and Setting and Managing Compensation. New Enhancements include Topic Navigation, Customized Menus Homepage, Saved Searches, Favorite Documents, and more!
• Consult IRS, DOL, and PBGC documents in full text for further clarifications.
• Stay alert to any regulatory changes with timely updates.
• Save time. Use the continuously updated collection of interactive forms to make reporting, recordkeeping, filing, and disclosure obligations easier.
• Prepare job descriptions and performance evaluations with customized results quickly and easily with KnowledgePoint software.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print notification Benefits and Compensation Management Update is issued biweekly.

Web reference material is updated regularly and includes Web notification coverage.

CD-ROM reference material is updated monthly.

• Cafeteria and flexible benefit plans
• Compensation design and administration
• Health care benefits
• Economic data
• Executive compensation programs
• Federal employment taxes
• International compensation
• Leave programs and alternative scheduling
• Pension plan administration
• Qualified retirement plans
• Sales compensation
• Unemployment compensation programs
• Variable and incentive pay programs
• Wage-hour and wage payment rules
• Welfare and fringe benefits
• Workers' compensation