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Your 2025 benefits compliance checklist: What you need to know

WEX Inc.

Flexible spending accounts (FSA) Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) offer a valuable tax-advantaged benefit, but the IRS use-or-lose rule can result in forfeited funds if employees dont use their balances by the deadline. Key dates February 28, 2025: Paper filing deadline for 1095-C forms.

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12 Ways to Improve Your Workforce’s Work-Life Balance

Achievers

If that’s not feasible, you may be able to join the 58 percent of smaller firms (and 83 percent of larger ones) who offer a dependent care flexible spending account. Make Sure Employees Take All Their Paid Leave. Whether it’s sick days or vacation time, American workers are neglecting their paid time off.

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4 Big Employee Benefits Trends for Family Planning

Best Money Moves

Paid Leave Benefits Are Expanding. Paid leave offerings are expanding as employers strive to meet the demands of employees’ personal lives. Maternity leave is offered by more than 40 percent of employers of all sizes, from employers who manage fewer than 50 employees to companies with more than 10,000 employees.

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12 Ways to Improve Your Workforce’s Work-Life Balance

Achievers

If that’s not feasible, you may be able to join the 58 percent of smaller firms (and 83 percent of larger ones) who offer a dependent care flexible spending account. Make Sure Employees Take All Their Paid Leave. Whether it’s sick days or vacation time, American workers are neglecting their paid time off.

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The Biggest Benefit Your Employees Won’t Even Use

UpstartHR

As if that wasn’t enough, the federal government is now attempting to introduce legislation that will force small companies to offer paid leave to employees. I would use this reminder as an opportunity to review your company’s offerings in terms of paid leave. More importantly, look into the usage of the benefits.

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February HR News Worth Review

Higginbotham

The FAQs also address how a plan’s or issuer’s coverage of OTC COVID-19 tests impacts health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) and similar account-based plans. California Passes Supplemental COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave. Employer Takeaway. The law takes effect Feb. 19, 2022, but it is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2022.

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How Employee Perks Can Help Companies in the US

Vantage Circle

Etsy , new parents joining the community of DIY creators are entitled to a generous 26 weeks of fully paid leave. Pinterest prioritizes family care by offering a minimum of 20 weeks of paid leave to all parents for bonding with their newborn or newly adopted child. Birth-giving parents receive 26 weeks. How to offer?