Genesis HR Solutions

OCTOBER 18, 2018

have adopted paid leave statutes. When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed the Paid Family & Medical Leave Act (PFML) in June, the Bay State became the sixth. Here are the benefits workers will receive: Workers will receive 12 weeks of paid leave to: Be with a newborn, adopted, or foster child.

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The Olson Group

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2021 has been another challenging, exciting, and ever evolving year for the business world. As 2021 comes to an end, here are some year-end tips and compliance guidance to ensure you are ready to kick off 2022 on the right track! Check out the 7 tips and download your very own checklist below!

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HR Digest

JANUARY 4, 2021

The main change for 2021 is the extension of the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). The CFRA currently varies fundamentally from the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in a few ways, with the end goal that in the event that you have a joined FMLA/CFRA strategy you should split them apart.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 26, 2021

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). The Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) doesn’t either.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic brought mandatory vaccinations and medical screenings to many companies, which has caused some controversy regarding the confidentiality of employee medical information. In particular, many want to know who should and who should not have access to their employee medical records.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 2, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic brought mandatory vaccinations and medical screenings to many companies, which has caused some controversy regarding the confidentiality of employee medical information. In particular, many want to know who should and who should not have access to their employee medical records.

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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. On February 1, 2021, it re-opened under a take-out and catering model and rehired 25 workers.

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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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Insperity

JANUARY 11, 2018

The HR world is abuzz with all the implications of implementing New York state’s paid family leave legislation and California’s ban-the-box law, both of which went into effect January 2018. Paid family leave. New York State’s paid family leave legislation is billed as the country’s strongest.

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Genesis HR Solutions

JUNE 28, 2021

Parental leave is a hot topic in the United States. As many families juggle full-time work with raising families, tensions over the lack of required leave in the workplace continue to grow. The United States is the only developed country that doesn’t require paid parental leave.

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Genesis HR Solutions

JUNE 28, 2021

Parental leave is a hot topic in the United States. As many families juggle full-time work with raising families, tensions over the lack of required leave in the workplace continue to grow. The United States is the only developed country that doesn’t require paid parental leave.

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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 employees who receive surprise medical bills. The overall price tag?

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) set to expire, employers can’t just roll back their leave policies to 2019. Calendar options under the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) were devised long before COVID and the FFCRA. Using the Calendar Year for FMLA leave.

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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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McNees

MARCH 18, 2021

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. The Act increases the amount an employee can exclude from the employee’s income and contribute to a dependent care assistance plan from $5,000 to $10,500 for the year 2021 only. Dependent Care Assistance Plan.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

These cover the gamut from paid sick leave and medical leave, occupational safety rules, and expanded coverage for more family members like parents-in-law. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing will administer more rules on family leave , sexual harassment, and much more affecting even small employers.

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Higginbotham

JUNE 7, 2022

These limits vary based on whether an individual has self-only or family coverage under an HDHP. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires health insurance issuers and self-insured plan sponsors to pay Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fees (PCORI fees). However, the PCORI fee payment for plan years ending in 2021 is due Aug.

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Genesis HR Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2019

Maternity leave is a hot topic in the United States. As many families juggle full-time work with raising families, tensions over the lack of required maternity leave in the workplace continue to grow. The United States is the only developed country that doesn’t require paid parental leave. Click To Tweet.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (“2022 CAA”) Section 307 – Congress extended HDHP telehealth relief under the CARES Act from April 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022, notably leaving a three-month gap in relief from January 1, 2022 – March 31, 2022. However, for non-calendar plan years, it may leave a gap in coverage.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When employees know they have to back up leave requests with appropriate medical information, FMLA leave abuse falls. While you don’t want to discourage appropriate leave – think containing a flu epidemic – encouraging calling-off-while-well isn’t a good strategy. What you should ask for depends on the reason for leave.

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Abel HR

JULY 27, 2021

In May, the US House of Representatives passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act , which if subsequently passed in the Senate, will require employers to reasonably accommodate workers and job applicants who need accommodations due to pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. ” Kind of ambiguous, right?

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Higginbotham

OCTOBER 14, 2022

workers who quit in 2021 said that low pay was a reason, and 43 percent said that a lack of good benefits was a reason. According to the 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey from KFF, 56 percent of firms with three to 49 workers offer health benefits to at least some of their workers. The Benefits of Employee Benefits.

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Higginbotham

MAY 17, 2022

Whether it’s paid time off or unpaid leave, time away from work is essential for work-life balance and overall employee wellbeing. are entitled to 28 days of annual leave. The APA’s 2021 Work and Well-being Survey found that 79 percent of U.S. Sick leave. Unpaid leave. Your employees need time off to recharge.

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Genesis HR Solutions

OCTOBER 3, 2019

January 1, 2021. They must also be free to leave the workplace. Parental Leave & Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) in Massachusetts. Parental Leave. The legislation also said that, despite it being called “maternity leave,” employers could not discriminate against males in applying it.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 12, 2021

The CDC would like to see employers offering appropriate sick leave policies that discourage employees from coming to work sick. Provide paid leave to encourage staying home. Employers can also legally screen all employees with temperature checks without violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This has two parts.

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Genesis HR Solutions

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

HR compliance, also known as labor law compliance, is the act of understanding and adhering to federal, state, county, and city regulations regarding existing labor laws and creating workplace policies and practices to make sure that your company is meeting the compliance standards that have been set at all levels. What is HR compliance?

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Genesis HR Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

HR compliance, also known as labor law compliance, is the act of understanding and adhering to federal, state, county, and city regulations regarding existing labor laws and creating workplace policies and practices to make sure that your company is meeting the compliance standards that have been set at all levels. What is HR compliance?

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

The Division didn’t follow through on most of what it said it would do,” said Kevin Walsh, Acting State Comptroller. Some of OSC’s findings include: The Division does not conduct regular reviews of employees on long-term leave. The vendor that manages medical services for injured workers still isn’t adequately monitored.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (“2022 CAA”) Section 307 – Congress extended HDHP telehealth relief under the CARES Act from April 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022, notably leaving a three-month gap in relief from January 1, 2022 – March 31, 2022. However, for non-calendar plan years, it may leave a gap in coverage.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Pre-tax dollars are deducted through payroll and placed into a flexible spending account to cover eligible medical or dependent care expenses. Some of the regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA ) require posters to be put up in the workplace. FSAs (flexible spending accounts) are typically a use-it-or-lose-it benefit.

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Genesis HR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

While these may seem like foundational components of HR, many businesses don’t have these things—as a result of these lacking hiring and training processes, their employees’ roles are unclear, goals are not achievable, and employees become dissatisfied and leave. Many states are enacting paid leave and other types of leave laws.

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Genesis HR Solutions

JULY 23, 2018

Ballot printers were readying the presses to see if voters wanted to raise the minimum wage, decrease the sales tax, institute paid family leave and levy a 4% surtax on all income earned in excess of $1 million annually. January, 2021), 1.1 Paid Family and Medical Leave. January, 2019), 1.3

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 17, 2023

Even if the injury was due in part, or in toto, to the fault of the employee, fault is not supposed to be an issue within the workers’ compensation scheme of providing medical care and indemnity payments to claimant’s whose injuries (or illness) arose out of and in the course of the employment. Hardaway Mgmt.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 4, 2024

Even if workers’ compensation fully covered all work-related cases, workers suffering work-related mental injuries must still bear the burden of the harm, and with their families, carry some of the financial loss. Data for 2020 is as of January 31, 2021. sickness, illness in family, etc.),

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cipHR

AUGUST 22, 2022

Biometric residence card (BRC) – for family members of European citizens who themselves are not from a European state. This was implemented on 1 July 2021; retrospective checks aren’t required on current EU employees if compliant checks were conducted before this date with a valid ID or passport. Criminal record checks.

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Insperity

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The new calendar year always rings in some employment law changes, and 2021 is no different. This year, many states have enacted changes in employee leave policies; ended or extended some temporary exemptions put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic; and taken steps to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.

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