HR Besties: Employee Benefits, Open Enrollment and Everything in Between
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- *Special* benefits
- Cringe corporate speak: pay your dues
- Hot topic: All things employee benefits and open enrollment
- Jamie provides a rundown on open enrollment (yes, Americans do indeed have to opt into benefits annually)
- How does HR play a role in benefits and healthcare?
- Educating yourself to provide the best information to employees on topics such as deductibles, HMO plans, dependant care, HSA's vs. FSA's, etc. Information is key.
- Working alongside brokers and insurance to ensure there are no hiccups
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So you know how sometimes in a job, you think about things like salary, responsibility, |
| 0:11.0 | but in HR, we're always like, what about the benefits, like the total rewards, right? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, what kind of benefits really feel like a reward? |
| 0:20.0 | I have an example. So when I lived in Australia, |
| 0:25.9 | you know, again, I can't go through an episode without match a lot. So I figured I'd just check. |
| 0:30.5 | Get it out. So there, like a lot of places globally, you know, benefits generally aren't a part of |
| 0:36.2 | employment. Like for those globally listening, again, the U.S't a part of employment. Like for those globally |
| 0:37.8 | listening, again, the U.S. is kind of odd. And so oftentimes your medical and health insurance |
| 0:43.2 | depends on whether where you or your spouse, partner, your parent works. And so they're |
| 0:48.7 | often part of work. But globally, a lot of time, that's like part of the government, part of your taxes or otherwise, |
| 0:55.6 | so it's not really tied to employment. But sometimes, so we lived there in Australia, and we were, |
| 1:01.3 | like, in the U.S., it's like an H-1B equivalent, and people are like, what's that? Like, it's kind of a |
| 1:05.9 | classification where you can live there because you're working there. And so in Australia, |
| 1:10.0 | you know, a lot of your |
| 1:11.1 | medical insurance, all of that is covered by the government unless you're, uh, what the category that |
| 1:16.9 | we were, um, which I think was a four or five seven, but it's been a few years, but which was the |
| 1:23.4 | classification. I'm sure. That's right. And it was in 457. It was 457. So luckily, though, |
| 1:30.8 | with my husband's company, they still covered all of our benefits. And so we got exceptional |
| 1:36.6 | benefits. And they were so exceptional that, like, I don't think we had, I don't think we had a |
| 1:41.5 | copay. But I had learned later on not only did we have benefits, |
| 1:46.0 | but you got other things. You got things like chiropractic, free, unlimited, chiropractic, |
| 1:51.2 | or maybe unlimited like three times a week, limited, but chiropractic. What's the needle, |
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