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19 Oct 2015, 8:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The Labor Department says these changes are made to better protect U.S. workers doing essentially the same jobs as H-2A workers by preventing adverse effect on U.S. worker’s wages and working conditions. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 6:00 am by Ed Reeves and Caroline Livett
Attempting to scrutinize the pay gap in bonuses, incentive pay, commissions, and overtime, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), part of the U.S. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 5:37 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She also continuously helps employers, insurers, administrative and other service providers, their officers, directors and others to manage fiduciary and other risks of sponsorship or involvement with these and other benefit and compensation arrangements and to defend and mitigate liability and other risks from benefit and liability claims including fiduciary, benefit and other claims, audits, and litigation brought by the Labor Department, IRS, HHS, participants… [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 4:42 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She also continuously helps employers, insurers, administrative and other service providers, their officers, directors and others to manage fiduciary and other risks of sponsorship or involvement with these and other benefit and compensation arrangements and to defend and mitigate liability and other risks from benefit and liability claims including fiduciary, benefit and other claims, audits, and litigation brought by the Labor Department, IRS, HHS, participants… [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 2:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Gotcher is an Investigator with the United States Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in the Dallas Regional Office. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, sponsoring employers and their management generally will want to ensure that their plan documents are properly updated to comply with the out-of-pocket maximum and other federal requirements, to require contractual commitments to administer the health plan in compliance with and to report, correct, and indemnify for violations of these requirements in vendor contracts with their health plan insurers, administrators and other vendors, and conduct documented audits to verify the… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 11:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Consequently, sponsoring employers and their management generally will want to ensure that their plan documents are properly updated to comply with the out-of-pocket maximum and other federal requirements, to require contractual commitments to administer the health plan in compliance with and to report, correct, and indemnify for violations of these requirements in vendor contracts with their health plan insurers, administrators and other vendors, and conduct documented audits to verify the health… [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 3:56 pm by Colorado Employment Law Letter
To the extent that an employee suffers a physical or mental injury or illness as a result of bullying at work, he could make a workerscompensation claim. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 2:29 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She also continuously helps employers, insurers, administrative and other service providers, their officers, directors and others to manage fiduciary and other risks of sponsorship or involvement with these and other benefit and compensation arrangements and to defend and mitigate liability and other risks from benefit and liability claims including fiduciary, benefit and other claims, audits, and litigation brought by the Labor Department, IRS, HHS, participants… [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Since violation of these out-of-pocket maximums (as well as many other federal health benefit rules) can trigger an obligation for the employer to self-assess, self-report by filing a Form IRS Form 8928, and pay excise taxes of up to $100 per day, as well as expose the plan and its fiduciaries to ERISA lawsuits from covered persons, the Department of Labor or both, insurers and administrators also should review their group health plan provisions and their administration in… [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 8:05 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Businesses that did not file required retirement plan returns should contact legal counsel about whether  they can come into compliance and avoid painful penalties by taking advantage of a newly announced Internal Revenue Service (IRS)  low-cost penalty relief program  for IRS penalties and a Department of Labor (DOL) voluntary compliance resolution program for Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) penalties. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  As implemented by current Department of Labor Regulations, these ACA claims and appeals procedures require that group health plans (other than grandfathered plans) both comply with: All of the pre-existing ERISA claims and appeals rules; and Notify members or their beneficiaries of their rights to and provide for independent review of coverage rescission decisions and medical judgment-based claims denials in accordance with detailed rules set forth in the Labor… [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 4:10 am by David DePaolo
They rely on the Department of Labor to manage and administer the claims. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 2:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
To resolve OCR’s charges, SMCS agreed to pay $218,400 to OCR and implement a “robust corrective action plan” to correct deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program and practices. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 2:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) implements a Proposed Fair Labor Standards Act Rule Change (Proposed Rule) that would extend overtime pay rights to nearly 5 million additional workers by guaranteeing overtime pay to most salaried workers earning less than an estimated $50,440 next year. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She also continuously helps employers, insurers, administrative and other service providers, their officers, directors and others to manage fiduciary and other risks of sponsorship or involvement with these and other benefit and compensation arrangements and to defend and mitigate liability and other risks from benefit and liability claims including fiduciary, benefit and other claims, audits, and litigation brought by the Labor Department, IRS, HHS, participants… [read post]