Benefitting You! 

August, 2012 
In This Issue
Defined Benefit Plans
What to Look for in 2012 Pension Plan
Keys to Effective Employee Performance
From a Human Resource Perspective....
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I hope you enjoy the August issue of Benefitting You!

Please join us for our next Quarterly Human Resource Roundtable and learn how to develop a strategy that offers benefits geared to the needs of employees.  It will be held from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. on September 25, 2012 at Sobel & Co.

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Defined Benefit Plans
By Kenneth Bagner,
Sobel & Co., LLC
financial reporting
If you have a defined benefit plan much needed funding was finally passed in July, 2012 through the highway bill legislation.  This bill will reduce the onerous requirements for short-term funding obligations in a defined benefit plan.


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What to Look For in 2012 Pension Plan:  De-Risking
Written by Retirement Services Department of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.
It's likely that plan sponsors will look ever harder at the idea of de-risking their plans in 2012 and onward.  The volatility of worldwide markets and reduced returns in the developed world have been dubbed the "new normal" by many economic minds.

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Keys to Effective Employee Performance
Written by Barbara K. Newman, SPHR, Founder/Consultant of Beacon HR, LLC
Barbara Newman
Over the years, I have found that successful employers use six means of encouraging and supporting effective employee performance.  And, that the most successful organizations consistently use all six.  These six best practices are to:

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From a Human Resource Perspective......

How Do You Fare on Facebook? 

By Molly Lockwood

 
Molly Lockwood
A passing comment by Joe Connolly of the Wall Street Journal this week on CBS Radio provided food for thought regarding the consistently growing movement among employers across all industry sectors to rely on social media sites to augment traditional personal interviews for job candidate selection.