Employer-Sponsored Wellness Program Incentives Under the EEOC Even before vaccines became widely available, some employers messaged incentive programs under the EEOC’s proposed rules that had ...

The wellness incentive program at Drexel, which is part of the University’s “A Healthier U,” has been helping employees who wish to improve their health and providing financial incentives to those who ...

Businesses have encouraged employees to take a part in their own health for decades. As society has gradually become more health-conscious, employers have recognized the importance of providing health ...

Conversely, wellness incentives unrelated to tobacco use (for example, for completing biometric testing or getting a COVID-19 vaccine) are treated as not reducing an employee’s required ...

Have you ever wondered how a wellness program can be defined as “voluntary” rather than mandatory if noncompliance penalties often reach into four figures, while the Affordable Care Act’s 2018 ...

Among people who received incentives for wellness programs or health screening programs, 52 percent of respondents received an incentive of less than $500 for a year; only 6 percent got $2,000 or ...

According to the KFF Employer Health Benefits 2022 Survey, 85% of large firms and 54% of small firms offer specific wellness programs, and 27% offer incentives for participating in or completing ...

Its wellness programs and healthy culture have earned high employee satisfaction and industry accolades, including from the American Heart Association. This six-year mission has resulted in the ...

In particular, she took the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to task for its 2016 regulations on employee wellness programs which provided that an employee’s decision not to participate in a ...

EEOC withdraws proposed wellness incentive rules. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has withdrawn two proposed new rules that were intended to deal with what type of employee wellness ...

Participants in the discussion from upper left were Debra Cheek, Shelly Scamardo, Wendy Hawn, Ian Anderson, Nicole Anzuoni, David Pizzo and Jeanette Martin. With the return to work, organizations ...

I founded a wellness tech company 18 years ago at a time when very few companies offered any sort of wellness program to their employees. It has since evolved to the point where most organizations ...