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27 Mar 2019, 6:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Adding employee recess to the workday schedule could be a cost effective wellness tool based on recently health research recently reported by the National Institutes on Health (“NIH”). [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 10:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
State and local political subdivisions employing fewer than 20 employees should reconfirm the defensibility of their employment policies and practices under the Age Discrimination and Employment Act (ADEA) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and various other laws in light of the unanimous[1] ruling issued this morning by the United State Supreme Court holding that the ADEA applies to all state and local political subdivisions regardless of size. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Beginning January 1, 2020, only employees earning at least $684 per week (equivalent to $35,568 per year for a full year worker) can qualify for payment on a salaried basis as employees exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) minimum wage and overtime requirements under the “White Collar Exemption” for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, computer employees and at least $107, 342 per year to qualify as exempt from the minimum wage and overtime… [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Beginning April 1, 2019, applicants seeking to resolve employee benefit tax qualification issues via the Voluntary Compliance Resolution (VCR) program must submit applications electronically through Pay.gov. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 9:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers should invite employees to update their Form W-4 withholding and finalize other 2019 payroll and income tax withholding arrangements based on guidance for 2019 published by the IRS and Treasury Department in Notice 2018-92 on November 26, 2018. [read post]
1 May 2019, 4:39 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The owner of a Greenville, Ohio, glass company faces sentencing to up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine in addition to paying $500,000 plus in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) after she plead guilty to failing to truthfully account for and pay employment taxes. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 12:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
February 12, 2019 is the deadline for health plans and their sponsoring employers, fiduciaries and business associates, as well as health care providers, health care clearinghouses, health care consumers, employer and other concerned persons to provide input on reducing the regulatory burdens of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules in response to the December 12, 2018 invitation of the U.S. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, their employer and other sponsors and fiduciaries, health insurers, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates should study and learn from the just announced, record-setting $16 million resolution agreement between health insurance giant, Anthem, Inc., to resolve Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) charges that Anthem, Inc. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Wisconsin employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by ceasing to deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks for remittance to their certified union in response to Wisconsin’s enactment of a right-to-work law that curtailed dues checkoff, or communicating with employees about this action according the National Labor Relations Board ruling in Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Following on the heels of Monday’s announcement that Anthem, Inc. is paying a record setting $16 million to resolve charges its violations of the enterprise risk assessment and other requirements of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule allowed cybercriminals to breach the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of more than 79 million patients, physicians and other health care providers, health plans and health insurers, health care… [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 12:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Interoperability will be a key priority for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) going forward. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 7:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A ruling by a Federal District judge on Friday (December 14, 2018) ruled unconstitutional the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) touches off a new wave of uncertainty about the future of the massive healthcare reform law commonly known as Obamacare just as the enrollment period for 2019 health coverage ended. [read post]