The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends smoke-free policies to reduce secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use. Read effectiveness and economic evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/23/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends on-site, free, actively promoted influenza vaccinations to increase coverage among healthcare workers. Read effectiveness and economic evidence URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/26/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends on-site, reduced cost, actively promoted influenza vaccinations to increase coverage among non-healthcare workers. Read effectiveness evidence. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/26/2026
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends worksite obesity prevention and control programs. Read the effectiveness evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/30/2025
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends worksite-based incentives and competitions with additional interventions to reduce tobacco use. Read evidence from systematic review. URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 1/22/2026
Employers who support worksite-based nutrition and physical activity programs can help improve the health outcomes of their employees. Specific programs combatting obesity have encouraged behavior change through workplace spaces for physical activity, aug URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
To help ease the costs associated with transportation, employers can provide transportation benefits that come in the form of subsidies for parking, public transportation, or bicycle maintenance or pre-tax transportation cost contributions. Some municipal URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Employers are not always required to provide paid sick leave to their employees. As a result, employees—particularly low-wage employees—are hesitant to take time off to deal with health issues out of fear of losing pay. Employers and municipalities alike URL: … Continued
Local governments can increase the minimum wage or establish living wage ordinances. States and municipalities have increasingly adopted a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage . Further, adjusting the minimum wage to changes in the median wag URL: … Continued
To reduce wage discrimination—which, for example, lead to wage gaps across gender and race and ethnicity—employers should consider implementing a pay transparency policy. Effective pay transparency policies provide employees with access to information abo URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
