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Employees weigh their health insurance options.

Health Insurance Instability Given the insurance market’s current climate of instability, employees are carefully weighing their options and many are re-considering the advantages of small group health benefits. In the Pacific Northwest where wage restrictions can hamper recruitment and retention, employers providing health insurance for their employees most certainly have an advantage over their competition
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How Much Life Insurance Do You Need (If Any)?

By Anna Bahney Before we deal with the downer of your death, let’s talk about your life. Does anyone depend on you? Like, financially, depend on you? No? Then you’re probably fine without life insurance. Of course, there are certain circumstances in which a single person with no one financially dependent upon them would need
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Want To Phase Into Retirement With Reduced Hours?

By: Ashlea Ebeling Employers might not advertise the fact that they offer reduced hours—or phased retirement—for older workers, but if you’re interested, you should ask. Even if your employer doesn’t have a formal phased retirement program, there might be informal options, and both are beneficial to employers and employees, according to a recent… READ MORE
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Time to Relax – History of Labor Day

By: Steve Brown According to the Department of Labor, the first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883. In 1884
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