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9 Jan 2012, 3:11 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Declining enrollment in private insurance resulted in continuing growth in government financing of health care expenditures in 2010 according to the Annual Report of National Health Expenditures (Report). [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 8:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
   The action will finalize plans to adopt these rules that the Administration previously announced last December, reported on by Solutions Law Press, Inc. in DOL Plans To Tighten Employment Protections For Disabled Veterans & Other Disabled Employees Signals Need For Businesses To Tighten Defenses. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 2:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Justice Department’s announcement today of its filing of a lawsuit charging County Employees’ and Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Cook County (Cook Pension Plan) and Cook County with willfully violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by refusing to allow an employee to make catch up contributions to the employer’s pension plan when she returned from military leave. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 12:23 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers, employee benefit plan fiduciaries and others caught violating Federal employment, employee benefit, and a wide range of other laws and regulations ranging from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA),  and many other Federal Labor and employment laws should brace for increased civil penalties and other changes in the calculation of these penalties under interium rules just released by the DOL. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 9:09 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by CRC on January 25, 2016, CRC proposed to revise its current regulations, which were originally adopted in 1999 both: To implement the expanded nondiscrimination and equal opportunity obligations made under Section 188 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) signed into law in July 2014; and To reflect the Obama Administration’s expansive interpretation, enforcement and other practices of protections for transgender, gender… [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 7:45 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
U.S. employers using aggressive worker classification or other pay practices to avoid paying overtime should heed the expensive lesson that the U.S. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 12:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care and other parties employing or otherwise engaging the services of home care workers should review and update their policies and  practices for scheduling, tracking hours worked and paying these workers to ensure that they comply by January 1, 2015 with a new final rule announced by the U.S. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 8:47 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Labor Department’s strong commitment to the investigation and enforcement of federal wage and hour law violations is reflected in its announcement of yet another wave of successful enforcement actions against a wide range of employers during December including the following: Car Wash Employees Receive Back Wages. [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 5:33 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers should make reviewing and tightening their worker classification and pay practices a high priority in light of the continuing aggressive investigation and enforcement of minimum wage, overtime and other federal pay law violations by the U.S. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 3:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In addition to suits brought by the Justice Department, prohibited discrimination by an employer under these other employment discrimination laws may expose a business to liability to actions brought by private litigants, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) or other agencies, or both. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Employee Benefits News, the editor and publisher of Solutions Law Press HR & Benefits Update and other Solutions Law Press Publications, and active in a multitude of other employee benefits, human resources and other professional and civic organizations. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 12:28 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Employee Benefits News, the editor and publisher of Solutions Law Press HR & Benefits Update and other Solutions Law Press Publications, and active in a multitude of other employee benefits, human resources and other professional and civic organizations. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 5:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
New litigation against the former trustee and former investment service provider of four pension plans reminds employer or other employee benefit plan sponsors, business owners or management, investment advisors and others serving as fiduciaries or advisors of employee benefit plans of the need to ensure that employee benefit plans are only used for the benefit of participants and beneficiaries, and prudently and properly invested and administered. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 11:27 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
“Expatriate health plans” within the meaning of the “FAQS About Affordable Care Act Implementation (Part XIII)”(the “Expat FAQ”) are not required to comply the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements for pre-January 1, 2016 plan years, as long as they comply with the applicable federal health plan mandates of pre-Affordable Care Act version of Title XXVII of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and other applicable law under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code… [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Businesses and workers concerned that the definition of “full-time” employment as 30 hours per week in the “pay-or-play” penalties of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to by the public  as “Obamacare”) is hurting American workers may want to share their input on recently introduced legislation that would raise the number of hours an employee must work to qualify as “full-time”  for purposes of the pay-or-pay… [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Employee Benefits News, HR.com, Insurance Thought Leadership, Solutions Law Press, Inc. and other publications, and active in a multitude of other employee benefits, human resources and other professional and civic organizations. [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 10:49 am by Brett Holubeck
However, increasing sexual harassment litigation and charges at the EEOC is a trend that will likely continue. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 3:03 pm by Curran Tomko Tarski LLP
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8 Dec 2022, 7:23 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department Of Justice Antitrust Policy On Prescription Medical & Other Health Products Pricing & Competition; Surprise Billing; And Novel Coronavirus Planning & Response HR & Benefit Leadership Resilience Strategies For Leading Your People & Operations Through COVID-19 Uncertainties & Disruptions OSHA Nails NJ Transitional Housing Provider For Exposing Workers To COVID-19 SEC Proposed Cybersecurity Rules Reenforce Tighten Requirements & Highlight Imperative… [read post]