EOB supports our clients with these additional services

Electronic Administration of Benefits

Open Enrollment. Depending on the size of your organization, Evolution of Benefits can provide electronic enrollment to make your open enrollment more efficient and simple.  This process can be as “hands-on” as you wish, as it will conform to your business’s needs.

Benefits website – coming soon. Through HRConnection, employees can view their benefits, download forms and brochures, communicate with your plan administrator, etc.

Implementing the HRconnection tool also provides an instant dependent audit, finding those that are not eligible for your benefits who are still on your plan.

HRconnection is also an asset in communicating ACA materials to your employees and covered members, and will provide your plan manager/HR manager a compliant report for your files.

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Employee Handbooks

Evolution of Benefits can help you create a comprehensive policies and procedures handbook for your company, which can also serve as a quick reference guide for employees. Handbooks should be reviewed every one to three years to ensure the policies and procedures are still relevant and up to date.

We individualize your handbook so that each policy pertains specifically to your company and employees. Employee handbooks may be print or digital.

Employee handbooks provide company information for new employees, serve as a reference for seasoned employees, ensure that all individuals are consistently treated with regard to company policies and procedures, and can protect the company from potential lawsuits. We encourage you to have legal counsel review your handbook to ensure compliance with your various employment and benefits laws.

In general, here are some Employee Handbook best practices we recommend:

• Have your handbook reviewed by legal counsel to ensure it does not contain unlawful provisions or language that could be interpreted as creating an employment contract.
• Make sure your handbook clearly states that it is not a contract and that the employment relationship is “at will” and can be ended at any time with or without cause.
• Include a statement that has the right to revise policies at any time.
• Include an effective date on each page of the employee handbook and include a statement that the current handbook replaces any previous handbook.
• Require employees to sign a statement acknowledging that they have received the handbook and understand its provisions. Keep a copy in each employee’s personnel file.
• Make sure that your handbook includes a list of offenses which are subject to discipline (but also note it is not a comprehensive list).
• Be sure to include an e-mail, voicemail and Internet usage policy.
• Include a section concerning equal employment opportunity and harassment.
• General language gives you flexibility and allows your handbook to be changed easily.
• Common trouble areas include policies on discipline/progressive discipline, layoffs, severance pay, probationary periods, performance evaluations, work rules and employee benefits. If you choose to include policies on these topics, legal counsel should carefully review them.
• Make sure that the documentation within your organization is consistent.
• Define the terms that you use, such as “excessive tardiness,” “insubordination,” etc.
• Make sure supervisors understand that their discretion is limited and that they cannot modify the handbook. Consider supervisor training sessions on policies such as FMLA, ADA, harassment, employee discipline, interviews, etc.
• Review it annually and discuss changes to be made

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Human Resources Consulting and Assistance

Evolution of Benefits can provide HR administration for your company, acting as an off-site HR department by offering consulting in sexual harassment, discrimination, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and hiring and firing practices.

The more your employees understand your benefit plans the more they become educated, empowered consumers.  The programs you provide will also gain an enhanced value. As your strategic partners in employee benefits,  we can provide multiple avenues of ongoing support, including:

• Employee Meetings (English and Spanish)
• Webcasts
• Payroll Stuffers
• Poster Campaigns
• Newsletters

We can also provide the following HR services:

• Customized employee handbooks
• Customized employee benefit statements
• Electronic open enrollment (depending on your organization’s size)
• Pre-employment drug testing and background checks
• I-9 Immigration Verification  

Contact us to let us know how we can help.

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Kolbe Index™

Our Benefit Consultants are trained in The Kolbe Index™. Contact us to arrange for an assessment for your team!

The Kolbe Index™ is different than other cognitive knowledge or affective assessments that measure personality; it is an assessment measure of your instinctive ways of doing something.

Kolbe recognizes how important our human instincts play a part in our decision making. Those instincts are the strengths people are born with and Kolbe helps bring those to light. Using the Kolbe Index to guide your team will only make your business environment more informed.

The Kolbe team has done extensive research over 40 years to provide a “promise of higher performance”. After taking a Kolbe Index, you will be able to view the participants’ results right away.

Kolbe A results explain where a person falls on the scale as a Fact Finder (ways of gathering and sharing information), Follow Thru (ways of arranging and designing), Quick Start (ways of dealing with risk and uncertainty), and Implementor (ways of handling space and tangibles).

Kolbe B measures how a person perceives what the job entails.

Kolbe C measures what a supervisor believes the job entails.

RightFit helps employers analyze Kolbe results and identify the ideal job candidate. These results can provide valuable information that can be used to understand the role of instincts in the following ways:

Individuals

• Improve efficiency
• Develop leaders
• Increase engagement

Teams

• Enhance communication
• Collaborate effectively
• Boost performance

Organization

• Hire & retain successfully
• Right people in right role
• Amplify culture

Kolbe A™, Kolbe B™, Kolbe C™ and Kolbe RighFit™ are the trademarks of Kathy Kolbe and Kolbe Corp. All rights reserved. Used herein with permission.

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Total Compensation Statements

Evolution of Benefits can prepare total compensation statements for your employees in order to help them best understand the benefits you offer.

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Wellness Services

Evolution of Benefits believes wellness oughbe be available to all sizes of organizations. We can offer our clients customized wellness plans, from basic online coaching and assessment, to biometric screening and other active platforms.

Most programs will provide a comprehensive report to the employer that will benchmark your company’s population. While keeping all data secure and confidential, employers are given statistics that will aid the group in where to take their corporate wellness. For example, if obesity is a trend, the report will suggest programs on healthy eating.

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