Regulation

For every employee leave you must ensure that an orchestra of different people, laws, and systems play in perfect concert with each other. Not an easy task when you consider the following: trying to determine who and when employees are on leave, abiding by multiple, complex leave laws, and dealing with HRIS tracking shortcomings.

All of the delays related to the Affordable Care may be seen a sign of the law's failure, but one employment law expert said Monday employers can view the delays as a good thing – an extra year or more to figure out what to do.

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions signal a need for benefit advisers to review clients’ plan documents and ensure they include thorough enforceable terms.

This insurance rule, referring to the grouping of companies owned by the same person, hasn’t applied to medical coverage until now. One broker is concerned that benefit advisers and small business owners alike aren’t up to speed on this requirement and could be vulnerable to liabilities via penalties and lawsuits.

Many employers have yet to update their work policies to reflect the 90-day waiting period rule, a possible landmine for employee confusion and lawsuits.

Today’s employers increasingly rely on a global workforce, and some ACA rules apply to employees working abroad. Similarly, ACA rules also apply to many foreign nationals working in the U.S.

New research provides a glimpse into just how dire of a situation employers are in as they face rising health care costs and the desire to continue offering a competitive benefits package.

In an effort to make workplace retirement savings more portable and to help build assets in tax-qualified retirement plans, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have removed a cumbersome step plan sponsors must take when accepting rollovers from other employers’ plans.

Courts in the past have held that telecommuting is not required as a reasonable accommodation by employers. All that could change thanks to a recent ruling in the Sixth Circuit, which may offer new precedent for the employee benefit.

Benefit advisers need to know how these two long-awaited guidance notices from the IRS will affect their employer clients.