HR Digest

JUNE 1, 2022

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is taking into account employee mental health. The Harvard Business Review reported that in 2019, employers grasped just how prevalent mental issues are and that companies need to address the stigma associated with it while offering practical solutions.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Organizations lending a hand will earn a reputation for valuing family, as well as their bottom line – a plus when it comes to employee recruitment and retention. FMLA: The Family Leave and Medical Act requires companies with 50 or more employees to give workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a family member.

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BerniePortal

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Department of Labor (DOL) requires that employers post certain notices in their workplaces in order to ensure employees have access to information about their rights. Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. The law defines various aspects of protection against discrimination in both hiring and employment practices.

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Insperity

MARCH 17, 2020

Because public health conditions can change rapidly, it’s critical for employers to know: How to help protect employees and customers How to continue business operations during a pandemic How to rely on official sources to stay informed How to manage and mitigate organizational risks How to navigate potential legal issues that may arise.

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Genesis HR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Paternity leave in Massachusetts is a hot topic of discussion right now. At Genesis HR, we’ve seen more inquiries about paternity (and parental) leave in the last several months than we have in all the years before it combined! The Emergence Of Paternity Leave. What is “standard” paternity leave? Click To Tweet.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 26, 2020

In mid-March, President Donald Trump signed into law two significant new federal paid leave laws. Between them, they represent the first national mandate for paid leave of any kind. The laws go into effect on April 2, 2020. Employers will also have to figure out whether the employee can work from home. But there’s more.

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Global People Strategist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In May 2020, Bill No.12 12 of 2020 was introduced before the Parliament of Fiji. This led to passing of the Employment Relations (Amendment) Act 2020 (ERA), which led to changes in Fiji’s employment law due to the difficulties faced by businesses during COVID-19. Paternity Leave.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 26, 2021

Before the pandemic struck, employers already had to retain a long list of records. Then Congress passed a series of laws designed to protect employees, provide limited paid leave, and help employers pay workers. The Families First Coronavirus Relief Act. The Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA).

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Health Consultants Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Whether their families battled the virus or not, they have all endured a life-changing event. Just like workers in all business environments, your employees are assessing their lives, reevaluating their careers, and reconsidering their employment options. . In 2020, they surveyed 2,504 active HR professionals. These include: .

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Insperity

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Otherwise, you make your business vulnerable to COVID-related Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints. In response to the national economic distress, employers have been forced to make difficult decisions about issues like: Where employees work Adapting work schedules How to maintain business operations Adjusting job roles.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 5, 2021

To date, about 10,000 employer-focused lawsuits have been filed — with more coming every day. From risk to exposure and wrongful death claims to leave denial, the ADA, retaliation cases, and more, businesses find themselves in tricky legal situations. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) created a workplace exposure presumption.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 1, 2021

The Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) has been in the news quite a bit recently due to its close ties to ongoing COVID relief. Despite this, ignorance is not a sound legal defense and employers need to stay up to date on current rulings. Paid time off and Emergency FMLA leave.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 13, 2020

6201, Families First Coronavirus Response Act very soon. Stay tuned: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is intended to be the first tranche of relief to help employees and employers deal with the work-related impacts of the coronavirus outbreak and the COVID-19 illness the virus causes.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 7, 2021

The Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) provides job-protected unpaid leave for employees who meet eligibility requirements. Employers cannot deny an eligible worker’s leave without severe legal consequences. If they do, the law is an entitlement. The 50 employee threshold.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most deal with implementing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Guidance on the definition of “qualifying relative” for individual income tax purposes. Employees may account for tax dependents in Step 3 of the 2020 W-4. Regulations on employer-provided convenience meals and de minimis meals under tax code Sections 119 and 132, respectively.

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Every year starts with a flurry of new laws and regulations that California employers have to contend with. The end result is another round of new laws that employers need to stay on top of so they don’t run afoul of them. And the employer can face a maximum penalty of $124,709 per violation.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 23, 2021

It can be hard to know exactly when workers can tap into their bank of paid or unpaid leave. Or perhaps unpaid FMLA leave. Maybe unpaid ADA leave? However, with an increased focus on paid and unpaid leave in the public eye, companies with outdated PTO policies could find themselves in messy situations. Bottom line.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 8, 2021

Does your equal opportunity statement advertise the opposite by leaving out newly protected classes? It’s impossible to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) without a job description that outlines essential and non-essential tasks. Note that your equal employment opportunity statement should be up-to-date.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As this holiday season approaches, employers, insurance companies, and employees will be facing what may be the biggest COVID challenges of the year. Medical delivery in most industrialized countries operates under a single-payer or unified system. Medical delivery has adopted telehealth for both treatment and expert evaluations.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 23, 2020

The Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) and the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA) give workers job-protected time off. For some workers, leave is fully or partly paid. Under some circumstances, workers can take leave intermittently. Nor are all employers covered.

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Health Consultants Group

MAY 1, 2021

The Connecticut legislature passed the Connecticut Paid Family Medical Leave Act on June 25, 2019. When the PFMLA is fully implemented, it will pay income replacement benefits to your employees when they take time off work to care for themselves or family members. Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act (CT FMLA).

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Business Management Daily

MAY 4, 2020

The future of the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) is taking shape before our eyes. In passing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Congress authorized limited paid leave for the rest of 2020. In all likelihood, some form of paid FMLA leave will survive the pandemic.

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Genesis HR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As we inch closer to 2020, you may be thinking about how you can make your small business even more successful. In this article, we’ll identify four common human resource challenges many companies are expected to face in 2020, and how human resource management can help you face these challenges head-on. Good for you!

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PeopleStrategy

APRIL 3, 2020

In the past two weeks, two major pieces of legislation have been passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES). Below you will find summaries of key provisions within each Act that impact employers and employees.

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Global People Strategist

MAY 28, 2020

This brief guide to COVID-19 leave laws in Canada gives an overview of the major changes in Canada’s Labor Code made by the federal government, and then goes on to highlight some significant changes made at the provincial level. COVID-19 Leave. The leave will be unpaid. British Columbia COVID-19 Leave Laws.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Department of Labor has been busy updating employer advice on the interplay between the coronavirus pandemic and the paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the FMLA. Families First Act provisions. Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2020

FMLA calendar choices may be more complex for employers to make than ever before. With the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) set to expire, employers can’t just roll back their leave policies to 2019. Lawmakers designed them to provide employers with flexibility when scheduling leave.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 28, 2021

For employers expecting to participate in the post-pandemic boom, long haulers constitute a potential problem. The reality is also that most long haulers are protected by existing employment laws. Federal and state laws limit what employers can do to remove long haulers from the payroll.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As anticipated, OSHA has released new guidelines for employers around COVID safety and prevention. However, that does not mean that employers should them. We’ve taken a look through these guidelines and highlighted some of the key provisions employers should be paying attention to.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 5, 2020

Here’s a sampling of three recent lawsuits that illustrate some of the legal perils that await employers in the coronavirus pandemic age. FFCRA paid sick leave. She told her employer about the test and the recommendation to quarantine. She did, and the medical practice terminated her. Refocus Eye Health , ED PA, 2020).

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

There have been various laws and guidance impacting HDHPs and telehealth since 2020 and most recently, new legislation extended relief for 2023 and 2024 plan years. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (“2023 CAA”) Section 4151- Congress extended HDHP telehealth relief under 2022 CAA through plan years beginning before January 1, 2025.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 5, 2021

The new COVID relief package included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. The key payroll provisions include: An extension of the paid sick/ family leave provisions and your tax credit for providing leave. Relief for employers that deferred the deposit of employees’ Social Security taxes.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pandemic leave policies are a hot topic in 2021 after many of the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act’s (FFCRA) federal mandatory provisions expired at the end of 2020. The FFCRA – the first comprehensive federal paid leave law – set the floor for COVID-19 leave. Current federal law on pandemic leave.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

Looking over the terms of employment, she noticed her status listed as “part-time.” Not only did she not feel the least bit bad about leaving her employer in the middle of a school year, she made a point of sharing her poor hiring experience on social media outlets where employees past and present post company reviews.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires paid leave for most employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine, testing, treatment, caring for family are all covered. Perhaps assuming cases would fall quickly, lawmakers set an end date of December 31, 2020, when the law sunsets.

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

15, 2020, to file individual and business tax returns and make tax payments, including third-quarter estimated tax payments. Employers’ third-quarter Forms 941, which is normally due on Oct. 31, 2020, is also extended to Dec. 25, 2020, for employers located in Iowa. 25, 2020, for employers located in Iowa.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 10, 2020

Accommodating working parents can be very challenging for employers as we all react to the COVID-19 pandemic. Employers have several options to allow working parents to do their job while taking care of their kids. Does the employer still need the employee’s job to be done? Emergency Paid Sick Leave regulations.

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