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Employee Benefits: The Only Guide You Need

Achievers

Federal and state mandated benefits include health insurance, worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, and required leave time for caring for family and/or personal medical purposes. Health insurance, and family and medical leave, are not required for all businesses. population is aging.

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Your 2025 benefits compliance checklist: What you need to know

WEX Inc.

ACA reporting deadlines The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that employers file reports annually with the IRS and distribute 1095-C forms to employees. The IRS requires this testing for Section 125 plans, HRAs, FSAs, and self-insured medical plans. Act updates) The SECURE 2.0 Retirement plan compliance (SECURE 2.0

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Can an employee be terminated while on medical leave?

Business Management Daily

However, one situation that often comes with a cloud of confusion is whether an employee can be terminated while on medical leave. Medical leave-related termination is a sensitive situation because employees on medical leave receive protection by numerous laws at the federal and state level that you have to consider.

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HR Audits: What Are They and Why Should You Conduct Them

HR Bartender

Are your employees properly classified under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ? Are correct forms being used for Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) ? Proper and up-to-date Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) policies and recordkeeping may be appropriate. Are Form I-9s complete and filed correctly? Functional.

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Pregnancy disability leave — who and what are covered

Business Management Daily

Is there such a thing as pregnancy disability leave ? The Pregnancy Discrimination Act , an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, notes that women affected by pregnancy or related conditions must be treated in the same manner as other applicants or employees who are similar in their ability or inability to work.

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Employee terminations 101: What to say and do when it happens

Insperity

If you work with a professional employer organization (PEO) , a representative from the PEO can also sit in on the conversation to: Provide additional HR support Act as another witness Help deliver the termination message Consult on how to avoid other potential problems. Where employee terminations should take place.

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What You Can Do When HR Doesn’t Listen – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

[Bussing] If the anxiety rises to the level of being a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or requires leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) , it would make sense that HR knows about the condition because the employee would have disclosed it when she asked for leave or accommodation.