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In mid-2018, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") began posting Q&As for practitioners on its website. Last week, PBGC posted an update, including several additional Q&As. The Q&As are available on the PBGC's "Staff Responses to Practitioner...
The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (the "Department") has released proposed regulations explaining the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees under Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Law (the "Law"). The Law requires most...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") announced that it has delayed the filing due date for the EEO-1 Report. The EEO-1 Report is a compliance survey mandated by federal statute and regulations. The survey requires company employment data to be...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, in Flowers v. McCartney, has determined that an employer did not violate the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") when it discontinued an employee's weekend pay differential due to FMLA-related...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Peterson v. UnitedHealth Group Inc., has upheld a district court's decision that a third-party administrator ("TPA") cannot engage in cross-plan offsetting to recover overpayments. Background. Group health plans typically have...
While the SEC works on finalizing its proposed Regulation Best Interest, there continues to be significant activity at the state level that will cover, in varying degrees, the same subject matter. The comment period in New Jersey has closed on its preproposal to issue...
As the partial federal government shutdown continues, more companies are being affected, directly and indirectly, and business owners, executives and human resources professionals need to be very careful about how they respond. Potential areas of concern include, but...
Benefit professionals need to be very careful about how they respond to the partial government shutdown. Potential areas of concern include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Eligibility and Vesting Service for Retirement Plans. Employees who are temporarily...
“Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but someday” … you are likely to have a golden parachute problem. It’s not often that Casablanca and tax law intersect, but the above warning is apropos for any tax exempt organization that has a 457(f) plan. Plans of that kind...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, in Acosta v. State of Alaska, has held that an employer could not count the time that a rotational employee was not scheduled to work as part of his leave entitlement under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA")....