HRadio – Oct. 7, 2008

This week’s lineup:

• News highlights

• Bailout includes retirement, health and exec pay measures (Geoff Manville) – Begins at 2:55

• Strategic funding policies for turbulent times (Betsy Dill) – Begins at 8:07

• Understanding Mercer’s ‘say/do’ proposition (Pat Gilbert) – Begins at 13:05

• Mercer’s Pan-European health and benefits survey (Stephen Clements) – Begins at 20:36

Total time: 27:41

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News highlights

Background GRIST: IRS proposes relief program for Form 990 nonfiling, related employment tax failures (30 Sep 2008)

Agencies extend pension funding deadlines for Ike victims (Select News, 2 Oct 2008)

Background GRIST: IRS updates pension mortality assumptions and process for using plan-specific tables (30 Sep 2008)

Bailout includes retirement, health and exec pay measures

Although the main objective of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is to remove troubled assets from the financial system and pump capital into credit markets, the law includes a host of provisions that could affect employers’ executive pay, health and retirement plans. Geoff Manville provides details on provisions of special interest to employers.

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Background GRIST: Bailout bill with exec pay curbs, retirement provisions now law (Mercer, 2008)

Strategic funding policies for turbulent times

Economic turbulence coupled with changes in financial reporting and disclosure are bringing the risks of defined benefit pension plans into sharper focus. Betsy Dill explains the Mercer approach to pension funding, using policies that can help plan sponsors avoid unpleasant surprises in all kinds of financial markets.

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Web briefing: Do you have a pension funding policy . . . and is it working? (Mercer, 7 Sep 2008)

Understanding Mercer’s ‘say/do’ proposition

Results of employee surveys are increasingly linked to measures of organizational performance. Pat Gilbert explains Mercer’s say/do proposition, a workforce analysis tool providing unique and powerful insights into workforce issues that can lead to improved strategy implementation and ultimately, performance.

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Making the ‘say/do’ connection: New generation of workforce analytics yields powerful insights (Mercer, 1 Oct 2008)

A data-driven approach to managing human capital (HRadio, 30 Sep 2008)

Mercer’s 2008 Pan-European health benefits survey

Health and welfare costs in Europe are increasing rapidly as advances in science and technology bring ever more effective – and expensive – diagnostics and treatments to the market. Stephen Clements reports on the tightrope employers walk as they balance the tight labor market against pressures to improve productivity and control costs.

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Mercer 2008 Pan-European Health & Benefits Survey (Mercer, 1 Oct 2008)

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