Regulation

Everyone from the health department to the IRS will be looking over employers’ shoulders, making sure they are compliant with health care reform. 2013 needs to be a year of careful preparation.

Employers should be using the 2013 plan year as their basis for collecting information relevant to their compliance obligation, according to guidance from the IRS.

The Supreme Court announced it will review cases involving the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and the validity of California’s Proposition 8.

Voters in Colorado and Washington pass initiatives to decriminalize recreational marijuana use by adults but laws won’t affect employer drug policies.

There may be unintended consequences of the 408(b)(2) fee disclosure regulations, says AmeriFlex executive

If there is uncontroverted evidence that the employee would have been discharged in the absence of a leave request, employers have nothing to fear from termination, based on a recent 10th Circuit ruling.

There are only very particular ways companies can restrict employees’ discussions on social media – even factually inaccurate comments about workplace conditions are protected. The National Labor Relations Board recently laid down some guidelines for employers.

Accurately tallying up employees, all the more important in light of PPACA, is not as easy as it may seem for those in businesses under partial or total common control with others.

As the Supreme Court looks at same-sex marriage cases next year, one legal expert says “there are, arguably, more complications for plan sponsors if DOMA goes away.”

The Department of Health and Human Services has laid out 10 categories of benefits that must be included in health insurance plans offered through an exchange.