New Guide From CCH Offers Roadmap To Effective Employee Benefit Communications

(RIVERWOODS, ILL., June 30, 2000) – It’s critical for your employees to receive timely, accurate and clear communications when it comes to their benefits. But communicating this complex information in plain English, and staying in compliance with federal requirements, can be a challenge for even the most experienced HR professional. Now, CCH INCORPORATED (CCH) a leading provider of human resources and employment law information, software and services, has introduced the Employee Benefits Communication Toolkit to help professionals effectively reach employees with important benefits information. ($245. To order, call 888-276-5422, contact your local CCH representative at 888-224-7377 or visit the CCH Human Resources web site at http://hr.cch.com.)

Employee Benefits Communication Toolkit provides the full range of information you need to communicate such topics as health plans and annual enrollment, retirement plans, fringe benefits and time-off policies in one comprehensive and practical guide. The Toolkit provides HR benefits and compensation managers with all the essential legal information regarding benefits issues, in addition to effective communication strategies and techniques that can easily be put in to practice.

Practical Tips, Tools for Communication Success

The Toolkit targets what needs to be communicated to employees, and effective methods for conveying it. Covering benefits communication from both a legal and practical standpoint, the guide includes the legal requirements for benefits communication issued by the Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission to keep you on top of compliance issues, as well as helpful CCH explanations and analysis that walk you through what you need to consider.

With helpful how-to guidance for creating communications, Employee Benefits Communication Toolkit covers the different techniques of writing, design and printing, interactive voice response systems, video production and using a web-site to communicate with employees.

As a companion to the loose-leaf service, a CD-ROM containing templates for communication, real-life examples and an overview of different effective communication methods, provides resources and tools you can put into practice immediately.

Availability and Pricing

For more information or to subscribe to Employee Benefits Communication Toolkit, call 888-276-5422, contact your local CCH representative at 888-CCH-REPS (888-224-7377) or visit the CCH Human Resources web site at http://hr.cch.com. A one-year subscription to the loose-leaf resource with quarterly updates, supplemented with the CD-ROM, is $245, plus applicable tax, shipping and handling.

About CCH INCORPORATED

CCH INCORPORATED, headquartered in Riverwoods, Ill., was founded in 1913 and has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The company produces more than 700 electronic and print products for the tax, legal, securities, insurance, human resources, health care and small business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer U.S. The CCH web site can be accessed at www.cch.com. The CCH Human Resources Group web site can be accessed at http://hr.cch.com.

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