Employee Benefits

For Maryland employers and their workforce, understanding family and medical leave protections is an important part of managing compliance and employee well-being. The primary law governing this area today is the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), though Maryland is rolling out its own paid family and medical leave program that will expand these protections […]

Most companies set benefits the same way each year: They take the previous year’s plan, add whatever the renewal requires and move on. There’s no comparison to what similar employers nearby are offering, and no check against what candidates are seeing in competing offer letters. Without benchmarking, you don’t really know whether your package attracts candidates or turns them away. You […]

Years after the shift to remote and hybrid work, many Maryland employers are still discovering how much it complicates benefits administration. A team that once sat in one Baltimore or Annapolis office now may span multiple states and time zones. The Multistate Challenge When employees work from other states but for your Maryland-based organization, employers can run into complications. Some carriers restrict eligibility by state, network coverage […]

With healthcare costs climbing, more employers across Frederick and the surrounding region are turning to voluntary benefits plans as a smart, low-cost way to round out their benefits package. What Are Voluntary Benefits? Voluntary benefits are supplemental insurance products that employees can elect to purchase, usually through payroll deduction, alongside their core group health plan. Unlike medical coverage, these plans are typically […]