How to Offer Postsecondary Education Benefits
Yesterday’s post detailed information about why you should offer postsecondary education benefits to your employees, and today’s post will outline more information on how to do this.
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Legislation Special Report: Wage And Hour
Wage and Hour Appeals AB 223 makes it harder for employers to recover attorney’s fees and costs in connection with an employee’s appeal from a labor commissioner wage and hour ruling. If the court awards the employee a sum greater than zero in the appeal, the appeal is successful and the employer can’t recover its […]
Minimum Wage: Getting Ready for the January 1 Increase
Compensation Costs Rising At Quick Pace
Taxes: Changes in Law Affect the Workplace
President Bush has signed the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 and the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, both of which make important tax changes employers need to keep in mind.
First Wave of Health Care Reform Changes Arrives September 23
Tomorrow, it will be six months since President Barack Obama signed health care reform into law. However, September 23 is not only health care reform’s six-month anniversary but also the day several significant provisions under the health care reform package (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation […]
Bulletin Item: IRS Issues New Withholding Tax Table
To reflect changes adopted as part of the tax act passed earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service revised the tax withholding table for employers, as well as other rate schedules. The new withholding table became effective July 1.
Michigan Firm Wins Reprieve From Contraceptive Mandate
In other legal action over health reform’s inclusion of reproductive services as mandated benefits, one company blocked the government from forcing it to include contraception coverage in its health plan coverage. The injunction in Legatus v. Sebelius, 2012 WL 5359630 (E.D. Mich., Oct. 31, 2012) was at the request of Weingartz Supply, a for-profit outdoor […]
News Notes: Court Rules You Can Correct Family Leave Mistakes
A court has decided that an employer who granted federal family leave to someone who wasn’t qualified to take it can later correct its mistake, despite a government regulation that says otherwise. The employer in the case had told a pregnant worker, Susan Seaman, that she was entitled to family leave, but it turned out […]
More Emergency Closing Challenges—and an HR and Comp Managers’ “Multi-Tool” to Get You Through
In the last Advisor, we considered compensation challenges related to emergency closings. Today: Related hassles and the problem solver thousands of HR pros use to help them through it. In an emergency closure, ordinary procedures are usually disrupted. Here are key processes you need to have in place to keep things going: Notification Notification is […]