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HR Compliance Update | August 29, 2024
FEDERAL UPDATES FTC Noncompete Ban Blocked Nationwide. A federal judge in Texas issued a strongly-worded final opinion blocking (nationwide) the FTC’s expansive ban on nearly all noncompete agreements. Employers preparing to send notices to current and former...
HR Compliance Update | August 29, 2024
FEDERAL UPDATES FTC Noncompete Ban Blocked Nationwide. A federal judge in Texas issued a strongly-worded final opinion blocking (nationwide) the FTC’s expansive ban on nearly all noncompete agreements. Employers preparing to send notices to current and former...
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Post Employment – HR’s Role After the Job Ends: Managing Post-Employment Effectively
“I think the fast growth firms, as you said, they want to know and learn from their mistakes and just get better and better. And you can't do that if you're not informed..” In episode #115 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small business owners'...
Texas Files Suit to Strike Down EEOC Background Check Guidance
Don’t mess with Texas.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) usually forces employers who are subject to Title VII to play defense. The State of Texas, however, has upended that approach. On November 4, 2013, Texas filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to...
Open Enrollment Applies to COBRA too . . .
January 1st is the busiest time of year for Benefit Renewals and changes. Just as the U.S. Department of Labor requires employers to notify their active employees of benefit changes timely in advance, this rule also applies to COBRA participants. COBRA...
IRS Guidance Provides An Alternative to the Current “Grace Period Rule” for FSA’s
The Internal Revenue Service recently released Notice 2013-71, which provides an alternative to the Grace Period Rule for health flexible spending arrangements (FSA). Under this alternative, cafeteria plans may now allow employees to carry over up to $500 of unused...
Health FSA Use-It-Or-Lose-It Rule Modified
The IRS has modified the use-it-or-lose-it rule for flexible spending accounts that has long frustrated many employees who would like to participate in their employer’s plan. Up until November 2013 there were two options employers could choose from when setting up...
PPACA Notice Alert
Health Insurance Exchanges Reach One Month Anniversary - Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplaces (also known as Health Insurance Exchanges) commenced on 10/1/2013 in preparation for the January 1, 2014 mandate for individuals to be covered by health...
Tips for Employee File Maintenance
Purpose and Overview: It is vital to secure and retain new employee forms in compliance with state and federal regulations and employer’s personnel policies. Periodic review of personnel file contents should not be overseen.Some "Best Practices" for employee file...
Holiday Parties and Alcohol
The holidays are approaching faster than the department stores can replace the summer final clearance items off the display racks with the holiday-themed merchandise that will engulf retailers’ locations for the immediate months to come. The rapidly approaching...
Top Five HR-Related Concerns for Small Business Owners
Based on the feedback we hear from our small business clients on a daily basis, we have compiled a list of the top five fears that small business owners face going into 2014. Below are a few tips of the trade to assist employers in these areas.Finding the Right...
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Update
The U.S Treasury Department announced yesterday that it is making a change to the IRS Use-it-or-Lose-it Rule for FSA accounts. (This is the rule that says participants forfeit any unspent funds after a plan year ends.) This change will allow an employer to offer...
IRS Recognizes All Same-Sex Marriages for Pretax Benefits
9/23/2013 By Stephen Miller, CEBS | SHRMRuling extends pretax treatment to same-sex spouses' health insurance coverage in all 50 statesUnder a new Internal Revenue Service ruling, employees who pay for employer-provided health insurance for their same-sex spouse may...
Fourth Circuit “Likes” First Amendment Protection for Social Media Speech
A Facebook "like" is speech protected by the First Amendment, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, reversing a federal court decision that the form of social media communication was not eligible for constitutional protection.“On the most basic level,...
San Antonio Adds Protections to Its Nondiscrimination Ordinance
9/27/2013 By Susan R. HeylmanThe City of San Antonio added sexual orientation and gender identity to the classes protected under its nondiscrimination ordinance. Before it enacted the new protections, San Antonio was the only major city in Texas that did not have...
Should Employers Pay for Time taken to Vote?
Laws vary by state, post applies to Texas but use link below article to review other state's requirements.§ 276.004. Unlawfully Prohibiting Employee From Voting (a) A person commits an offense if, with respect to another person over whom the person has authority in...
Daylight Saving Time Pay – November 3rd
Most states participate in daylight savings time. Those employees working the graveyard shift when Daylight Savings Time begins work one hour less because the clocks are set ahead one hour. Those employees working the graveyard shift when Daylight Savings Time ends...
Job Descriptions – Why Have Them?
Up-to-date and carefully written job descriptions are one of an employer’s most important communication tools. They explain the “who, what, when, why, and how”, defining essential functions and performance expectations for each position. Without job...
COBRA or State Continuation- Does it really matter?
How do you know if your Employer sponsored group plan is COBRA or State Continuation? With Savers it’s simple….It’s all in the details. COBRA Employer groups with 20 or more employees are regulated by Federal COBRA guidelines. COBRA eligible benefits include...
WHERE TO FIND EMPLOYER NOTICES AND FEDERAL EXCHANGE
<Notices Due October 1, 2013 - Affects all EmployersContent All employers are required to provide "Notice" to their employees about MarketPlace Exchanges available either through their state or provided through a federal exchange. Even if a company does not provide...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Deadline Looms: Here’s What Employers Need to Do
9/27/2013 by McCarter & English, LLPAs the October 1, 2013, deadline for compliance with certain notification requirements mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) approaches, employers are grappling with questions about their obligations...
Preparing for the Affordable Care Act – A Brief Guide for the Small Business
9/30/2013 by Susan Baker of Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLPThe steps a small business should take to prepare for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) vary greatly depending on the size of the business and how many employees it has. Small businesses...
Notices Due October 1, 2013 – Affects all Employers
<Notices Due October 1, 2013 - Affects all EmployersContent All employers are required to provide "Notice" to their employees about MarketPlace Exchanges available either through their state or provided through a federal exchange. Even if a company does not provide...
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