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21 Feb 2012, 10:46 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers of workers relying on H-2B visas for eligibility to work will need to update their practices to comply with a new Final Rule on the H-2B program issued February 21, 2012 by the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and Wage and Hour Division. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 7:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) proposes to make to its rules on when its minimum wage and overtime protections apply to workers who provide in-home care services for the elderly and infirm. [read post]
2 Mar 2016, 5:00 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union sponsored group health plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and their insurers are not required to comply with a Vermont state law that requires health insurers and certain other parties to report payments relating to health care claims and other information relating to health care services to a state agency for compilation in an all-inclusive health care database, according to the United States… [read post]
6 May 2016, 11:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer uses her deep and highly specialized knowledge and experience to help employers and other employee benefit plan sponsors; health, pension and other employee benefit plans, their fiduciaries, administrators and service providers, insurers, and others design legally compliant, effective compensation, health and other welfare benefit and insurance, severance, pension and deferred compensation, private exchanges, cafeteria plan and other employee benefit,… [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 1:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 ”The Labor Department holds employers accountable when they do not properly pay their workers,” said Cynthia Watson, regional administrator for the Wage and Hour Division in the Southwest. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) on September 24, 2019 and currently awaiting assignment for official publication in the Federal Register will raise the minimum earnings threshold that WHD regulations require as a prerequisite to an employer treating an employee as exempt from the FLSA under the White Collar Exemption for the first time since 2004[1]. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 3:51 pm by skelly
  Effective September 15, 2020, the Department of Insurance stopped issuing temporary producer licenses related solely to the COVID-19 State of Emergency. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:15 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer uses her deep and highly specialized knowledge and experience to help employers and other employee benefit plan sponsors; health, pension and other employee benefit plans, their fiduciaries, administrators and service providers, insurers, and others design legally compliant, effective compensation, health and other welfare benefit and insurance, severance, pension and deferred compensation, private exchanges, cafeteria plan and other employee benefit,… [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:15 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer uses her deep and highly specialized knowledge and experience to help employers and other employee benefit plan sponsors; health, pension and other employee benefit plans, their fiduciaries, administrators and service providers, insurers, and others design legally compliant, effective compensation, health and other welfare benefit and insurance, severance, pension and deferred compensation, private exchanges, cafeteria plan and other employee benefit,… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 7:14 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Publishers of her many highly regarded writings on health industry and human resources matters include the Bureau of National Affairs, Aspen Publishers, ABA, AHLA, Aspen Publishers, Schneider Publications, Spencer Publications, World At Work, SHRM, HCCA, State Bar of Texas, Business Insurance, James Publishing and many others. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 8:47 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  According to the Labor  Department, an investigation by its Dallas Wage and Hour Division office found that The Christmas Light Co. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (DOL) announcement of the Foothill settlement, DOL investigators determined that Foothill, a packing and labeling company, violated the H-2 visa program by terminating 18 workers, who were U.S. citizens, that Foothill claimed failed to meet production standards when the investigation found that many of the terminated workers consistently exceeded the production of many of the foreign workers Foothill continued to… [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 6:56 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The Labor Department also says employee misclassification also generates substantial losses to state and federal treasuries, and to the Social Security and Medicare funds, as well as to state unemployment insurance and workers compensation funds. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 4:39 pm by Rebecca Shafer, J.D.
    Texas Department of Insurance Changes Pay Advance Form The Texas Department of Insurance Division of WorkersCompensation recently changed the form injured employees use to request pay advances on their WC settlement checks. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 9:10 am by Don Cruse
DANIEL SAMUDIO, No. 10-0554, which allowed such remands, the Texas Supreme Court reverses and sends the matter back to the Workers Compensation Division. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel and Past Chair of both the ABA Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and it’s RPTE Employee Benefits and Other  Compensation Group, Ms. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 4:42 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition for Responsible Healthcare Policy and its PROJECT COPE: the Coalition on Patient Empowerment and a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation and State Bar of Texas, Ms. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 5:24 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
(WCxKit)     The workers compensation carrier insuring PJ Trailers and Delco Trailers is Farmington Casualty Co. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 11:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employee misclassification also generates substantial losses to the Treasury and the Social Security and Medicare funds, as well as to state unemployment insurance and workerscompensation funds. [read post]