Tag: benefit

How Leaders Should Think About Employee Benefits

By Michelle Arieta As the seismic shifts caused by the Great Resignation continue to reverberate across the workforce, employees everywhere are looking to make a change motivated primarily by companies offering better compensation, including benefits. Record numbers of workers left their jobs in 2021. And, as the year came to a close, Ceridian’s annual Pulse…


American Airlines Launches Rights Issue Plan to Protect $16.5 Billion Tax Benefit

American Airlines Group Inc. said on Wednesday it was seeking shareholder approval for a rights offering plan to avert any hostile takeovers and preserve a $16.5 billion tax benefit, as the industry grapples with the Omicron coronavirus variant. The No. 1 U.S. airline said it had cumulative U.S. federal net operating loss carryforwards exceeding $16.5…


Handful of States Begin Paying Out Extra $300 Weekly Jobless Benefit

Around a dozen states have begun paying out the extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits that are part of the recently enacted COVID-19 relief bill, with most states poised to join them by mid-January. Jobless Americans in Arizona, California, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia can…


Feds Weigh Cutting Covid-19 Sickness Benefit for Canadians Who Have Travelled

OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government is weighing whether to bar people who have travelled overseas from a new sick−leave benefit that pays up to $1,000 to Canadians who have to quarantine due to COVID−19. The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit was launched in the fall to help Canadians who are unable to work because they must quarantine…