This morning, I ran across an article that reports a recent rise in the number of employers offering voluntary benefit programs to their employees. Generally, voluntary benefit programs are “hands-off” insurance benefits requiring minimal administrative work, and usually include disability, life, accident, or ...
In the final regulations issued on the shared responsibility penalties (often referred to as the pay or play penalties), the Departments provided relief for 2015 to employers with between 50-99 full-time equivalent employees. If an employer qualifies for this relief and certifies its eligibility for the relief, it will not ...
Chris Allesee
I was reviewing a service agreement for a client, I couldn’t help but recall one of the “slap-the-forehead” violations I would see more often than you would expect as a former Department of Labor investigator. In administrative committee meeting minutes, I would read a detailed multi-meeting explanation of extensive ...