1. What's the difference between an HMO and a PPO? With a health maintenance organization (HMO) health plan, the group member has access to doctors and hospitals that are within the HMO network. In other words, he or she can go only to doctors that are within that...
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From the HR Support Center: Can we pay a temporary employee as an independent contractor?
We’ve hired someone to help out with some end-of-year tasks, and they’ll be leaving shortly after the new year. Can we pay them as an independent contractor since the duration of their employment will be only a handful of days? We will be controlling the work. Likely...
From The HR Support Center: Reconsidering Remote Work And Other HR Practices
In the past year, many employers who would never have considered a remote work arrangement discovered that it was not only possible, but in some (or many) ways preferable to how they worked before. As a result, many employers plan on maintaining a remote workforce in...