Regulation

Because there can be various ways of assessing what constitutes a full-time employee eligible for coverage under the PPACA, the IRS has issued guidance in the form of several notices, as well as temporary regulations.

Under a new congressional plan, employers would be able to bring in an additional 20,000 low-skilled laborers a year, a number that would gradually rise to 75,000.

In what it calls the first ever wage analysis of U.S. Census data by metropolitan area, data from the National Partnership for Women & Families show the wage gap affects women in all 50 states and the 50 largest metropolitan centers.

A lawsuit between two local hospital systems has come to an end after the Ohio Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling in favor of Mercy Medical Center, the system accusing Aultman Health Foundation of a corrupt insurance broker incentive program.

Remember to keep the “human” in human resources and take this advice if you want to keep your terminations clean, succinct and lawsuit-free.

A federal judge has ruled that the pension beneficiaries can sue the company as a group over its transfer of $8.5 billion in plan obligations to Prudential Insurance Co. of America.

New legislation was issued last night in the Senate that would remove broker compensation from the MLR calculation.

Employers have until May to begin using the new Form I-9, or else face penalties from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the arm of the federal government that enforces immigration policy.

A Senate hearing yesterday discussed a bill that creates a non-profit, national organization that would simplify the licensing process for brokers conducting business outside of their state of residence.

In a legislative session sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, benefits attorney Elizabeth Vollmar covered everything from in-house administration functions to avoiding financial exposure.