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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]
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]
5 Jun 2013, 9:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  By exercising its discretion to waive the 90-day notice period, the EBSA allowed JP Morgan Chase Bank NA and ADP Inc. to terminate immediately and wind up approximately 180 defined contribution pension plans abandoned due to corporate crises or neglect. [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]
1 Oct 2013, 11:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Despite a showdown in Congress about health care reform’s future that threatens to bring funding of the U.S. government to a halt and a host of recent security and other concerns about the security and operational readiness of its enrollment platform and details of the implementation of the marketplaces in many states that will provide the offered coverage, the Obama Administration is touting today, October 1, 2013, as the first day that Americans can apply for enrollment in coverage offered… [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]
11 Jul 2013, 3:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Other To Dos Other helpful preparations also generally will include: Seeking and monitoring developing guidance about the meaning of minimum essential coverage and other associated rules; Providing meaningful input to the IRS, the Department of Health & Human Services, Congress and others on the need for and options to simplify time and other data and reporting requirements,  employer interactions and data requests for verification of exchange subsidy eligibility and other… [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]
26 May 2013, 1:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Verify Character and Implications of Proposed Features and Products Alone & In Conjunction With Overall Benefit Design To Avoid Unexpected Exposures As employer and other plan sponsors, insurers, and their service providers continue to struggle to understand and select the health plan options legally allowed when the next wave of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reforms take effect on January 1, 2014, recent guidance from the Departments of Health & Human… [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 5:37 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and union group health plan sponsors and insurers of group and individual health plans (Health Plans) generally will need to update their Health Plans’ Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) to comply with updates to the SBC disclosure mandates to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) the Departments of Health & Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL) and Treasury (IRS)(collectively, the Agencies) announced April 23, 2013. [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]
21 Nov 2011, 10:07 am by Glenn Cohen
  To simplify a party can only be bound by issue preclusion, if they (or their privy) were a party to Case 1. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 6:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Report Highlights Concerns About Security Of Sensitive Personal Information Americans Will Share With HHS Exchange Portal AS HHS Invites Consumers To Set Up Personal Accounts The reported finding that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has yet to complete the necessary security arrangements and testing for the web-portal Incomplete security arrangements and testing necessary to ensure the security of personal health and other information shared by consumers on the health… [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 1:51 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While most employer and union health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators are bracing to cope with “pay or play” and other mandates of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, most report frustration with the continuing lack of clarity and uncertainty about rules and costs. [read post]