Municipal Government Benefits Practices and Personnel Outcomes: Results from a National Survey
Employee benefits are an essential and costly component of the compensation and human resources management system. This research effort surveyed 358 municipal governments on their employee benefits practices. The survey results clearly indicate that municipal governments are very competitive in terms of traditional benefits (health, pensions, dental coverage, etc.) as all 10 types, except for short-term disability, are provided by a majority of the responding municipalities and exceed private sector rates. Municipal governments lag behind the private sector in the deployment of key family-friendly benefits such as child-care, elder care, flexi-place, flex-time and job sharing.
Specialty Health Care Services in Municipal Government
This article examines the use of specialty health care services in municipal governments. Findings are provided by a comprehensive national survey. The focus is on describing the use of specialty services and exploring their impact upon satisfaction and the overall cost of coverage. The data show some interesting variations in the use of these services. They also suggest some important relationships with satisfaction and cost. For example, the overall cost of indemnity programs appears closely linked to the number of specialty services. Also, individual services such as dental care and eye care were associated with more expensive indemnity programs.
Age Related Employment Issues in Florida Municipal Governments
Of all the projections concerning the nature and composition of the United State's future labor force, the prediction with the greatest degree of consensus targets employee aging. This study employs a sample of 45 Florida muncipal governments to examine a number of issues related to the aging labor force and human resources management policy and practice. The results indicate that formal charges of age discrimination are rare in municipal governments and that few muncipal governments are developing age-related training programs.