Benefit Plan Design And Implementation Delivered On A Silver Platter

We specialize in optimizing employee benefit programs for our clients, delivered on a silver platter. Whether you are looking to implement a traditional benefit plan that includes health insurance and a 401(k), or a more extensive program with multiple medical carriers and options, health savings plans, health reimbursement accounts or voluntary benefits such as life and disability insurance, we have the expertise to help you implement the best program for your company.  
At Granite, we provide our customers with a complete benefit analysis of the data that is relevant to your organization to ensure that you remain competitive within your industry when  it comes to employee recruitment.   We keep up with current trends in the healthcare marketplace and federal laws to ensure that the benefits program you are providing is valued by your employees and attractive to your candidates.

Benefit Administration and Claims Management You Need

Granite’s Benefit Administration team manages the daily duties of administering your group’s complete employee benefit program you need. We work on your behalf to minimize your administrative time, expense and issues. These services allow you to focus on your core business. Granite’s benefit administration services include the following activities:

• Online Benefit Administrator/Human Resource Tools
• Employee Adds/Deletes/Changes (processing & follow-up)
• Census/enrollment tracking
• Customized website development and management
• Online enrollment for large groups
• HR Newsletters & Information
• Employee Benefit Enrollment Kits
• Employee Benefit Information Packages
• Billing issues
• Claims management
• Open enrollment meetings
• Employee notification tools for your utilization
• CalCobra/COBRA Administration Partnerships
• HR Services – Customized for your specific needs

Granite Benefits – Customized Website to Ease Administration Burden

At no additional cost, Granite provides a customized employee benefit web site for each of our clients. For employees and their dependents, Granite Benefits is a great tool that promotes self-service, plan benefit details, HR information, that’s branded with your company’s logo and information. With 24/7 access via the Internet, employees will be less reliant on your HR personnel because all the information they need – plan overviews, hyperlinks to carriers and consumer health sites, enrollment and change forms, carrier directories, FAQ’s, contribution schedules, and contact information for their Granite Account Manager – is available through your customized site using Granite Benefits.

Employee Communication Tools That Matter

Granite has a multitude of options for how we can communicate with your employees, providing them with the information they need to understand their benefits and appreciate the value of the programs that you provide to them.  

We offer services that matter like:

• Translation services
• Benefit education meetings and open enrollments
• Hard copy benefit guides
• Electronic employee benefit kits
• Toll free assistance line
• Employee newsletters
• Personal, responsive and knowledgeable service
• Customized websites to manage benefit programs
• Customized benefit summaries
• Wellness programs

Our HR Services Rock!

Employers everywhere are struggling to stay in compliance and still have time to successfully run their businesses.  

At Granite, we monitor, update and educate our clients on this always-changing legislative landscape.  We offer human resource, web-based products and services to small and mid-sized businesses on a grand scale. Our education can come in the form of newsletters, seminars, in-house workshops or one-on-one meetings with our HR consultant. We focus on Federal legislation such as ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, FMLA or the California version of each,.  Our HR team makes sure that you are provided with the tools and information you need to ensure your company is protected. In short, we rock.

HR Support Center

• Employee Handbook
• Job Descriptions
• Policies
• Forms
• Check Lists
• Guides
• Letters
• Articles
• 3 Minute HR Audit
• News, HR Dictionary
• Monthly Newsletter
• Q&A Database
• Background Checks
• Business Training
• Health & Safety Training
• Labor Law Posters

We provide HR services for all 50 states regarding employment laws as well as all federal laws rewritten into 10th grade English. In addition, we offer unlimited HR consultation for employee relationship issues, handbook creation and review, and document customization of forms letters job descriptions and more.

Online Enrollments You’ll Love

It’s Granite’s goal to streamline your administration burden when it comes to the enrollment and administration process for groups with over 50 employees. Granite has unique partnerships with numerous HRMS providers to help you implement the best technology to support and reduce the overall HR cost and processes.

Health Savings Accounts That Work

By adding health savings accounts to your employee benefit program, we help control your healthcare costs to stay competitive, but at the same time, continue to offer affordable and necessary health benefits that your employees want and need.

Wellness Programs You Need

At Granite, we are a firm believer that a wellness program improves our client’s bottom line by:

• Attracting and retaining the most talented workers
• Improves productivity
• Reducing absenteeism and lost time
• Improving on-the-job time utilization and decision making
• Improving employee morale, attitude and happiness while at work

In addition to improving your bottom line, wellness programs have proved to be an effective tool in slowing the increase of health care costs. Choosing healthier alternatives may help to reduce an employee’s chances of suffering from illnesses. Lower level of illnesses means employers can lower health plan utilization, thereby lowering your cost to purchase medical benefits.