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Employment Laws: Navigating the Maze of Regulations

HR Digest

From the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), we’ll break down the essential regulations that can impact your business. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA): A Balancing Act The FMLA is like that aunt who always shows up uninvited to family gatherings.

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Comprehensive Guide to the Best Employee Benefits Options for 2024

Empuls

Take the example of a leading technology company where, by just introducing flex-time for its employees, allowing them to work from home, and far better health benefits, the whole approach toward implementing employee benefits was changed. Health insurance Arguably, this is the most important prerequisite of a good benefits package.

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High Deductible Health Plan Telehealth Relief, Extended Again!

Snell & Wilmer Benefits

If you sponsor a high deductible health plan (“HDHP”) and have been tracking telehealth relief, your head may be spinning and rightfully so! The relief allows, but does not require, HDHPs to provide telehealth and other remote care services on a pre-deductible basis without making participants health savings account (“HSA”) ineligible.

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High Deductible Health Plan Telehealth Relief, Extended Again!

Snell & Wilmer Benefits

If you sponsor a high deductible health plan (“HDHP”) and have been tracking telehealth relief, your head may be spinning and rightfully so! The relief allows, but does not require, HDHPs to provide telehealth and other remote care services on a pre-deductible basis without making participants health savings account (“HSA”) ineligible.

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Mandatory Paid Sick Leave: The Australian Approach to Supporting Workers’ Well-Being

Global People Strategist

One crucial aspect of ensuring the welfare of employees is the provision of paid sick leave. Australia, renowned for its progressive labor policies, has implemented mandatory paid sick leave as a cornerstone of its workers’ rights framework. Below are some of the main advantages of Australia’s paid sick leave policies.

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February 2024 HR Update

Higginbotham

29, 2024 for Calendar Year Plans Each year, group health plan sponsors are required to complete an online disclosure form with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicating whether the plan’s prescription drug coverage is creditable or non-creditable. Medicare Part D Disclosures Due by Feb. 10, 2024, the U.S.

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Mental Injuries- Part 3: Implications for Disability Insurers and Workers’ Compensation

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The degree to which any statute results in work-related cases of mental injury being discouraged or denied shifts more costs from employers (the nominal payers of workers’ compensation premiums) to taxpayers (who fund social welfare), other workers (who fund social insurance), and insured (who fund some or all the costs for disability insurance).