The Employer Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The class was essentially a primer on the basics of employment law, during which I emphasized both the types of claims on which paralegals may assist clients, and the employment-law issues that the audience may encounter for themselvesat work. And then we got to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Many hands went up).

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 18, 2017

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires insurers to offer plans with reduced deductibles, copayments, and other means of cost sharing to certain people, depending on their income, who pur­chase plans through the ACA marketplaces. The number of people uninsured would be slightly higher in 2018 but slightly lower starting in 2020.”.

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

His weight climbed from about 350 pounds in 2005 to over 560 pounds just four years later. His weight climbed from about 350 pounds in 2005 to over 560 pounds just four years later. Michigan has banned obesity discrimination in employment since 1977. But generally, obesity alone does not qualify as a disability under the ADA.

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HR Daily Advisor

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which would repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—eliminating, in two steps, the law’s mandate penalties and subsidies but leaving the ACA’s insurance market reforms in place. At that time, CBO and JCT offered a partial assessment of how H.R.

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 6, 2018

Most employers are aware that the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) requires group health plans sponsored by covered employers to allow qualified beneficiaries to have “COBRA continuation coverage” in the event that they lose group health plan coverage for specified reasons. Rules for Premiums.

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HR Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In 2005, Dahlke Trailer Sales hired “Tony” after he presented a false Social Security number. Federal immigration law, however, prohibits employers from knowingly employing undocumented workers. Dahlke argued that its only motivation for placing Tony on leave was to comply with federal immigration law. Background.

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HR Daily Advisor

DECEMBER 27, 2016

If an employer offers retiree health coverage that is a non-COBRA alternative to COBRA coverage for eligible retirees, then the retirees are still considered “covered employees” for COBRA purposes. Hamburger, Esq., For retirees, their spouses, and dependent children, the start of a bankruptcy proceeding.

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HRExecutive

MAY 18, 2016

Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in a recent statement highlighting findings from a new UC Hastings study. Naturally, these claims are hitting American employers pretty hard in the wallet. FRD litigation cost U.S.

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Discrimination Workday Report Study 75

Ohio Employer's Law

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s been a busy few days in employment-law land, with the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment case dominating the headlines. What have we learned? His misconduct was the worst kept secret in Hollywood, with even Courtney Love discussing it all the way back in 2005. serial harasser, maybe one of the worst in history.

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HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 20, 2017

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) generally requires private employers offering pension plans to adhere to a lengthy list of rules designed to ensure plan solvency and protect plan participants. Church plans, however, are exempt from those requirements. designer491 / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 2, 2017

And given that the law is confusing and burdensome and nitpicky, it’s no wonder. While the law has various components, today we’re going to focus on just one aspect of it: What happens to benefit premiums when an employee goes on FMLA leave? The short answer is “yes.”. What Constitutes a ‘Group Health Plan’? Keep the Status Quo.

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HR Planning Employment Law Groups Course 43

HR Daily Advisor

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While employers are not required to offer run-out periods, they allow employees to continue submitting claims for reimbursement during a specified time following the end of the year. However, there are two key exceptions employers should be aware of. Employers do not need to adopt them. Grace Period. Carryover Rule.

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HR Planning Handbook Employment Law Compliance 49

HR Daily Advisor

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this article, we’ll look at some of the key benefits 401(k)s provide to both employees and employers, as well as some important practical considerations. Although CODAs have existed in various forms for many years, federal law did not officially recognize them until 1978, when Congress added Section 401(k) to the Internal Revenue Code.

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HR Planning Retirement Discrimination Handbook 67

HR Daily Advisor

DECEMBER 6, 2017

To ease employees’ concerns about access to their elective deferrals in the event of a financial emergency, an employer may provide for hardship withdrawals in its plan. For employers, it increases the adminis­trative burden of operating the plan; for employees, making preretirement withdrawals can sig­nificantly drain retirement savings.

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HR Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In 1997, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accepted 16,394 charges alleging retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that number swelled to 33,082 in 2016. On May 23, 2011, USPS Captain “Tony” learned that Nancy had filed a charge of discrimination alleging race discrimination.

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Discrimination Harassment Employment Law Report 43

HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

By Jennifer Carsen, JD, Senior Legal Editor. Earlier this year, we ran an article on managing employee status changes under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I invited follow-up questions, and you delivered! Here are a few more tricky ACA status change situations (and answers) for you. Assuming, of course, she remains a full time employee.).

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HR Daily Advisor

JANUARY 24, 2018

By definition, cafeteria plans allow employees to choose between cash and a variety of employer-provided benefits without having to include the value of their chosen benefits as taxable income. Cafeteria plans are popular because they allow employees to design individualized benefits programs that suit their own special needs.

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HR Planning Compensation Handbook Employment Law 43

HR Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In a nutshell, it means “too small to worry about” (yes, even the law recognizes that some things—granted, very few—just aren’t worth quibbling over). All of these situations are governed by the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) rules on de minimis fringe benefits. mediaphotos / E+ / Getty Images. “De De Minimis = Too Small to Matter.

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Medicare and the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), alas, are nothing like chocolate and peanut butter: Two incredibly complex laws that are more than doubly confounding together. For this reason, employers that use the DOL model notice should change the appropriate references to “entitlement to” Medicare.

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 11, 2017

Rest period violations are a source of enormous potential liability for employers, so it’s critical to ensure that you are appropriately compensating employees for their rest periods. Stoneledge paid sales associates under a “Sales Associate Commission Compensation Pay Agreement.” per hour for every hour worked.”

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Wage and Hour Training Compensation Planning Tools HR Software 43

Ohio Employer's Law

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I’ve been thinking all weekend whether to write about Donald Trump’s 2005 hot mic embarrassment, and, if so, what I’d write about. After all, I’ve already recently written about plagiarism and your b.s. After all, I’ve already recently written about plagiarism and your b.s. Then I saw Mr. Trump’s non-apology, and I had my theme.

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Ohio Employer's Law

MARCH 23, 2016

People seem to like lists, so here’s one to kick off this month’s Employment Law Blog Carnival. Who is the greatest rock band of each decade (according to Jon Hyman)? The 1960s — The Beatles (with apologies to the Rolling Stones). The 1970s — The Who (with apologies to Led Zeppelin and the Clash).

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Employment Law Hiring Software Handbook HR Software 28

HRExecutive

JUNE 10, 2016

A pair of recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cases suggests the situation is every bit as risky — both for drivers and employers — as you might think. Supreme Court ruling that lawyers call a victory for employers. Supreme Court ruling that lawyers call a victory for employers.

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HR Daily Advisor

DECEMBER 19, 2017

That’s because effective January 22, 2018, Phase 4 of the implementation of the 2005 law will begin. Despite the fact that the REAL ID Act has been law since 2005—in fact, it was one of the very first laws I ever covered in my time as a legal editor—many people were surprised to learn of this looming effective date.

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Compliance HR Planning Employment Law Planning Tools 54

HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 15, 2017

Some of Mrs. Lacroix’s pedagogical methods have not stood the test of time—I am thinking specifically of her propensity to whip off her glasses, stroll dramatically across the room, and administer cheek kisses to misbehaving third-grade boys—but maybe more of us could use a reminder from time to time about this “no fairness guarantees” thing.

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 27, 2017

Jim’s ability, or lack thereof, to build the Mexico business is now moot as the Mexico division was sold off late last year). Ah, the annual (or semi-annual) performance appraisal. One of the few rituals of work life that’s loathed in almost equal measure by employees, managers, and HR alike. kentoh / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Conference Adobe Performance Management Employment Law 52

HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 20, 2017

In 2005, she took the position of senior patient services specialist and again communicated her disability to her hiring supervisor. From roughly 2005 to 2008, she often took medical leave for medical appointments. By Steve Jones. Background. The cancer has been in remission since 1999. Willow disputed the accuracy of the complaints.

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HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 12, 2017

After 5 years of paying off Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment accusers—giving $13 million to five of them—Fox gave O’Reilly the ax more abruptly and shockingly than King Joffrey did to Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. Bill Cosby’s roofie romances were well-documented and widely publicized in 2005, and nobody cared.

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 29, 2017

An administrative law judge (ALJ) decided that Rebecca had failed to prove that she suffered a gradual-onset low-back injury because she had “failed to provide medical evidence in the form of objective medical findings to support her claim.” by Steve Jones. Background. AERT appealed the commission’s decision.

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Compensation Background screening Report Employment Law 40

Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Need to explain to someone why, even after working their rear end off all year, that their annual increase is 2.7%? Even though FMLA doesnt require time off for Bereavement, it turns out that if a manager says so, the company has to follow through. Evil HR Lady Why am I evil? Well, Im not, but thats the perception of all of us in HR.

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Policies Time and Attendance Compliance Training Company 42

HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 28, 2017

While it’s unlikely that employee benefits law will ever form the basis of an edge-of-your-seat Hollywood thriller— ERISA Extreme , anyone?—the Despite all the high-stakes uncertainty, there are a few constants for employers. the past few weeks are about as close as we will ever get. courtneyk / E+ / Getty Images.

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Employee Benefits HR Planning Employment Law Groups 40

HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 15, 2017

That total consists of $323 billion in on-budget savings and $13 billion in off-budget savings. By 2026, the CBO estimates, 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under the current law. zimmytws / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Deficits Down but Number of Uninsured Up.

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HR Planning Comparison Employment Law Report 54

HR Daily Advisor

MAY 12, 2017

Despite the negative views of marijuana (medicinal and otherwise) held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump Administration will not expend resources towards thwarting states’ medical marijuana laws. 244 into law late last week; the measure enables the funding of the federal government through September 30th. Trump signed H.R.

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Employment Law Compliance Resources Compliance Training 62

AssessTEAM Performance Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Clean Off Your Desk Day Second Monday of January #CleanOffYourDeskDay Schedule five minutes at the end of every day to put away papers and freshen up your desk for the next time you sit down. The holiday was created in 2005 by NationalHatDay.com After months of planning, the day is finally here for hats to be celebrated on a global scale!

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 8, 2017

While there had been talk of capping the longstanding tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance—which would have shifted costs to individuals rather than employers—there is no such cap in the current proposal. Employer and Individual Mandates Gone … Retroactively. zimmytws / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Zenefits

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A new Illinois law places requirements on employers who video record interviews with job applicants and then use an artificial intelligence system to analyze the responses, demeanor, and mannerisms of the prospective employees. The law went into effect January 1, 2020. The law covers “positions based in Illinois.”

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Video Recruiting Hiring Software Interview Software Planning Tools 41

HR Daily Advisor

MAY 25, 2017

The modified version of the AHCA, says the CBO, would increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026 relative to current law—again, that estimate was 24 million under the original version of the AHCA. designer491 / iStock / Getty Images Plus. To recap: The original version of the AHCA was introduced in early March.

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