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How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Impacts Your Small Business
Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), small businesses are required to provide accommodations for pregnant workers. While these accommodations are only for a temporary period of time, they can legally cover essential job duties. To avoid falling afoul of...
How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Impacts Your Small Business
Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), small businesses are required to provide accommodations for pregnant workers. While these accommodations are only for a temporary period of time, they can legally cover essential job duties. To avoid falling afoul of...
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Navigating Small Business Growth: Performance Management for 50+ Employees
When Jack Welch took over as the head of GE in 1981, he instituted a “rank-and-yank” system where employees were ranked against each other. Originally based on the military’s method for identifying officer candidates in World War II, this rank-and-yank system involved...
The Affordable Care Act Roadmap
We began our series of posts on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effect on employers of all sizes with an overview of how penalties will be determined for employers who do not offer “affordable coverage”(see EMPLOYER...
USCIS Revises Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9
Revisions include new user-friendly instructions for completing Form I-9WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 for use. All employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for...
New I-9 Form
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a revision of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, effective March 8, 2013. New form: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf The new I-9 form, now two pages long, has new data...
Helping Employees find the Greener Pasture: Your Side of the Fence
In the past few years, many companies have had to tighten their budgets in lieu of further downsizing their employee headcount as a result of the economic recession that fell onto the US during the last quarter of 2007. Consequently, organizational strategy focused on...
The Employer Mandate
From an employer’s perspective, this is most likely the most feared aspect of Health Care Reform. In fact, the overwhelming majority of our Health Care Reform-related questions to date in 2013 have covered this topic. So the purpose of this article is to answer some...
HIPAA Regulations Updates
Effective March 26, 2013, updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations may impact certain employers. These regulations are based on changes under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act,...
FMLA Notice Poster Update
Effective March 8, 2013, there are changes to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requirements. All employers covered by FMLA must display the updated FMLA notice poster, “Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act” (WHD...
FMLA Forms Update
Effective March 8, 2013, employers should begin to utilize the updated Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) forms (revised February 2013) released by the Department of Labor (DOL), when applicable. The updated forms are: FMLA Form WH-381 (Notice of Eligibility and Rights...
DOL Final Rule on FMLA Military Amendments
Effective March 8, 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a Final Rule implementing the changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) made by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The 2010 NDAA, amended the FMLA's military caregiver leave...
DOL Final Rule on AFCTCA
Effective March 8, 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published a Final Rule implementing the changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) made by the Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act (AFCTCA). The AFCTCA amended the FMLA to incorporate a...
Notice of Exchanges and Subsidies: Delayed
According to the original Health Care Reform Acts, effective March 1, 2013, employers of all sizes were required to provide each newly hired employee with a written notice of the existence of health insurance exchanges and potential subsidies available (Notice of...
COBRA and the Affordable Care Act
It seems there is something in the news daily regarding the many changes that will take place in January 2014 as a result of implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We think you may find it ‘refreshing’ to know about something that will not change…. ...
Employer Shared Responsibility and the Affordable Care Act
Our series of posts on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effect on employers of all sizes begins with an overview of how penalties will be determined for employers who do not offer “affordable coverage”. This is referred to as Employer Shared Responsibility...
To Pay or Not to Pay Overtime: How Should My Employee Be Classified?
It is important to ensure that jobs are appropriately categorized as either Exempt Status positions or Non-Exempt Status positions. The Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) Exempt Status applies to employees who meet specific exemption criteria delineated in the Act....
Notice of Exchanges and Subsidies: Delayed
A health insurance exchange is basically a virtual health insurance marketplace that is intended to create a more organized and competitive market for buying health insurance. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), states are encouraged, but not...
Unemployment Hearings: Telephone Hearing Tips
We speak with many employers who are shocked after they experience their first unemployment telephone hearing. In general, they report feeling unprepared for the formality of the proceeding, and overwhelmed by the legal procedures to which they were required to...
IRS Extends Filing And Payment Deadlines due to Hurricane Sandy
The Internal Revenue Service has extended until February 1, 2013 the deadlines for most income tax returns, income tax payments and other time-sensitive actions otherwise due from the time of the storm through the end of January 2013 for taxpayers affected by...
State Exchange Update
Under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the deadline for states committed to setting up a State-Based Exchange for submission of an “exchange blueprint” to the federal government was December 14, 2012. The deadline for states planning to...
HRAs are Impacted by the Affordable Care Act
On January 24, 2013, the Department of Labor released a document containing guidance about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Formatted as a series of frequently asked questions, the document included items relating to Health Reimbursement...
The 2012 W-2 Form: Most Commonly Asked Questions and Their Answers
W-2s are now in most employees’ hands and the questions are beginning! We thought it would be helpful to give you a handy reference with simple answers of what we have found to be the most commonly asked questions about the W-2. Remember: this is an...
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