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On December 6, 2019, the Second Circuit held that an employee does not have to show that she received less pay for equal work in order to prevail in an unequal pay claim. Instead, she only has to prove that the employer discriminated against her because of her gender....
The IRS has issued Notice 2019-63, which provides an automatic deadline extension for Applicable Large Employers' ("ALEs") reporting obligations under the Affordable Care Act's ("ACA"s) Employer Mandate for the 2019 tax year. Background. The ACA's Employer Mandate...
Mandated Benefits 2020 Compliance Guide - Katherine Brustowicz, Dannae Delano, David Gabor, Barry Salkin, Marcia Wagner and Roberta Casper Watson, Wolters Kluwer, December 2019
In Sun Capital Partners III v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on November 22 in favor of private equity funds, thus settling a long-running dispute as to whether two Sun Capital Funds could be...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") has announced the Medicare Part A deductibles and Part B premiums for 2020. Medicare Part A covers inpatient hospital and hospice care, while Part B covers outpatient services such as doctors' visits. The Part A...
The IRS has released the 2020 inflation-adjusted limits for certain employee welfare benefit plans and the dollar amounts used for certain discrimination tests. Health FSAs. The limit for employee salary reduction contributions for health flexible spending account...
The U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") has issued Opinion Letter FMLA2019-3-A, which confirms that the terms of a leave policy provided under a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") cannot supersede the requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), even...
One of the most common and important tasks for ERISA plan fiduciaries is how to appropriately respond to plan participant claims for benefits. When the decision is made to deny benefits to claimants, the importance of having in place prudent protocols and procedures...
A new California law (AB 1554) imposes a new notice mandate on employers with employees in California. The law requires employers, beginning in 2020, to notify their flexible spending account (FSA) enrollees – via two different modes of communication – about any...
The Internal Revenue Service announced cost-of-living adjustments affecting certain dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related limitations for 2020, as detailed in Notice 2019-59. Please click here for a chart that details the 2019 retirement...