Absence Management

Cost-Effective and Compliant Absence Management Programs

Alera Group offers clients of all sizes and industries access to leading insights, tools and expertise to help you manage your entire workforce, including:

  • Focus on four key areas of impact: Total Health & Productivity Management, Absence Management, Return-to-Work and ADA Accommodations and Integrated Disability Management
  • Manage multiple touch points across disability, leave and Workers’ Compensation
  • Understand and address regulations and requirements to ensure compliance
  • Streamline administration and improve record keeping and reporting
  • Enhance employee engagement to attract and retain a competitive workforce
  • Improve return-to-work rates and decrease employee absences
  • Provide access to meaningful data, benchmarking and outcome reporting
  • Increase productivity and improve overall workforce health.

The Impact of Absence Management

Potential Implications for Stakeholders.

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Employee Communication & Absence Management

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EXPERT EDUCATION

Events and Webinars

Employee Benefits

Setting Your Strategy for the New Year: Alera Group's 2025 Employee Benefits Market Outlook

Our experts will highlight key results from Alera Group’s "2025 Employee Benefits Market Outlook" and explain how these trends can impact your benefits program this year.

January 16, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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The Value of Voluntary Benefits

In this session, our experts will showcase the value of voluntary benefits, from financial savings to improved retention to addressing the specific needs of their employees.

March 20, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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Mental Health Management during the Holiday Season

During this session, our experts will share tips for how to manage you and your employees’ mental health during this busy time, as well as strategies for absence management.

October 16, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Insights

Employee Benefits

State of the Market for Employee Benefits in 2025

What are the needs and priorities of those in the workforce and the employment market? What are rival businesses offering to attract and retain the best the market has to offer? And what shifts are taking place in the market that employers should anticipate and prepare for? Alera Group’s 2025 Employee Benefits Market Outlook, scheduled for release on January 16, provides answers to those essential questions.

December 19, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Don’t Forget About Your Gag Clause Attestations

When the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) was enacted on December 27, 2020, it included a provision that prohibits group health plans and health insurance carriers from entering into certain agreements that, either directly or indirectly, restrict the release of certain information related to provider networks and de-identified encounter data, among other things. Such restrictions are commonly referred to as “gag clauses.” The CAA also requires plans and carriers to attest annually that their agreements do not include such impermissible gag clauses.

November 20, 2024

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"Leave Report": An Innovative Resource for Informing Your Employee Benefits Plan Design

Based on a survey of more than 1,040 organizations across the U.S., Alera Group’s 2024 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Leave Report provides insights into how businesses of different sizes, industries and regions are addressing employee leave, including holidays, vacation time, sick leave and other paid leave for common life events.

August 8, 2024

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Legal Alert: IRS Adjusts Health Flexible Spending Account and Other Benefit Limits for 2024

On November 9, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2023-34, which increases the health flexible spending account (FSA) salary reduction contribution limit to $3,200

November 10, 2023

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