ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW FREE REPORTS Controlling Rising Health Care Costs" and State Discrimination Record-Keeping Requirements"

Ramsey, NJ (January 10, 2002) -- Helping human resources personnel and benefits administrators make the right decisions for their companies is the mission of the newly posted free reports available for download at AHIs Employment Law Resource Center located at www.ahipubs.com, and AHIs Benefits Alert website located at www.benefitsalert.com.

In the free report Controlling Rising Health Care Costs" posted on AHIs Benefits Alert website, the writers of AHIs Personnel Legal Alert newsletter have teamed up with human resources professionals and benefits administrators to report on how they are handling the rising costs in health care and retirement benefits.

Some of the topics covered in this valuable free report include:

- Increased Cost-Sharing with Employees
How companies can increase their bottom line by encouraging employee participation in defined contribution plans including 401k and flex accounts.

- Educating and Communicating with Employees
How simple and inexpensive methods of education and communication with employees on benefits can help offset rising costs of health care and retirement benefits.

- Controlling Prescription Medication Costs
Methods of offsetting high prescription medication costs by revising or implementing different types of prescription plans.

Employers can download this free report at http://www.benefitsalert.com/bal010902.cgi. (Note: Free Registration is required.)

By downloading the free report State Discrimination Record-Keeping Requirements" posted on AHIs Employment Law Resource Center, human resources personnel will learn all the latest vital information on preventing discrimination based lawsuits. Covered in this report:

- How to stay on the legal side of any documentation mandates in your state

- Mistakes to avoid by reading the latest court cases in which the lack of proper record-keeping ended up costing companies more then $135,000 in fines and lawsuits.

-   A brief summary of which states have discrimination posting requirements

Employers can download this free report by going to http://www.ahipubs.com/ers010902.cgi. (Note: Free Registration is required.)

About Alexander Hamilton Institute
Alexander Hamilton Institute has been helping executives manage their companies and their careers since 1909. AHI currently publishes, produces, and maintains print newsletters, booklets, looseleaf manuals, e-mail newsletters, and websites targeted to top management, Human Resources directors, Personnel managers, front-line managers, supervisors, and benefits administrators.

About BenefitsAlert.com
BenefitsAlert.com by AHI is a free resource for employee benefits news and information on topics ranging from 401(k) and group health plans to COBRA and FMLA. On BenefitsAlert.com, visitors will find useful employee benefit articles, tips, links, and reference resources that will help save time and money. As well as important information on employee benefit court cases, legislation, and regulations that will help ensure an organization's benefits administration stays on the right side of the legal line.

About Personnel Legal Alert
Twice each month, Personnel Legal Alert published by the Alexander Hamilton Institute covers crucial personnel problems human resources departments face today, such as discipline, discrimination, pay issues, leave, and interviewing. It is designed to help executives and managers keep personnel policies in line with new court cases, fast-breaking government regulations, and complex federal legislation, so they don't run into potentially crippling lawsuits, fines, and citations.

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