The HighFlyer Blog
Keep up with the latest trends, thought leadership, best practices, and compliance updates on our blog. We bring you the latest news, tips, and strategies for employee engagement, talent management, workplace learning, payroll, benefits administration, compliance, data and analytics, and more.
Best and Brightest: Hans and Donna Sternberg Establish Largest Endowed Scholarship in Ogden Honors College History
On Thursday, April 6, in the French House Grand Salon, Hans and Donna Sternberg announced a leadership gift to the LSU Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College. The donation is the largest one-time scholarship gift and the largest endowed scholarship in the history of the...
After selling the family insurance business earlier this year for $127 million, Donna and Hans Sternberg are launching another company in an entirely new field
Donna and Hans Sternberg have a long history of building businesses together, and they’re showing no signs of slowing down at the helm of their new company, Highflyer Human Resources. Sternberg’s new company is called Highflyer Human Resources, and it sells Human...
6 Open Enrollment Items For Your To-Do List
When many of us think of fall, our mind wanders to the changing colors on trees, raking leaves and football. Human resource and benefit professionals must have one more thing top of mind–open enrollment. Annually, HR and benefit professionals must...
4 Tips For Impressing New Hires On Day One
“You never get a second chance to make a (good) first impression” is common advice doled out to job interviewees or new company hires. Companies should also consider this when they contemplate how to help make their new employees feel comfortable while...
Can you prove your ACA compliance?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer mandates and deadlines are putting plenty of fear, worry and doubt into those who must comply with reporting requirements. Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) should be especially aware of their ACA obligations to...
How’s your company’s vision?
Can you see what’s coming for employee health care reporting? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is burdensome and complex with changes to many different laws or sections of our tax code. With nearly 100 provisions since its enactment, it seems to continually impact...
FLSA Lawsuits Are On The Rise
Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuits numbered over 7,000 in 2012 alone. Companies such as Walmart, Staples, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Oracle, CVS, Tyson Foods, Lowe’s and AT&T have been subject to significant FLSA penalties. FLSA lawsuits don’t...