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.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 2, 2017

For many HR professionals, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) administration is near—or at—the top of the list of most-hated-things-about-the-job. And given that the law is confusing and burdensome and nitpicky, it’s no wonder. What Constitutes a ‘Group Health Plan’? The short answer is “yes.”. Keep the Status Quo.

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HR Daily Advisor

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Note: This article references content from The Flex Plan Handbook, with thanks to editor Rich Glass of Mercer, LLC. Arrangements outside a cafeteria plan adjusting salary to compensate for health FSA for­feitures may jeopardize the qualification of the FSA under Section 125 because this could be viewed as impermissible risk-shifting.

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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. Unlike loans, hardship distributions are not repaid to the plan. Thus, a hardship distribution permanently reduces an employee’s account balance under the plan.

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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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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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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 20, 2017

Her treatment resulted in adverse, long-term health effects, including a suppressed immune system and cardiomyopathy. 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.

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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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AssessTEAM Performance Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This year is flying by very quickly, so be sure you have an HR social media calendar of activities to stay ahead of important dates. You don’t have to create an employee engagement activities calendar from scratch because you can use AssessTEAM’s HR calendar instead! It contains all the key dates you need to know as an HR professional.

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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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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.

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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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HR Daily Advisor

MAY 25, 2017

The saga of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican plan to repeal and replace key portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been a long and winding one so far. designer491 / iStock / Getty Images Plus. To recap: The original version of the AHCA was introduced in early March. The conclusion?

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HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 22, 2017

Dubbed the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017,” the 142-page Senate proposal is substantively quite similar to the AHCA—including its elimination of the employer and individual mandates—with a few distinctions. The tax credits would also cover leaner plans than they do now. Stay tuned for updates as they become available.

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HR Daily Advisor

JANUARY 17, 2017

The provision, which is currently slated to go into effect January 1, 2020, would impose a 40% excise tax on all employer-provided health insurance plans valued at more than $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for families. “As Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) introduced H.R. How Much Will It Cost to Repeal the ACA?

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