If your company offers an HSA to employees, you’ll need to be aware of how the new fiduciary rule factors into that offering. (more…)
Payroll
There's good news for your Payroll department. (more…)
With so many cities passing paid sick leave laws lately – we’re up to about two dozen now – the latest stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) should come as no surprise. (more…)
This year, employers may be surprised to find the penalty for failing to file a Form 5500 jumped all the way to $2,063 per day (up from $1,100). But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. (more…)
Right now, you're probably hyper-focused on how the DOL's new overtime salary threshold will impact your workforce -- and that's certainly understandable. But a recent Supreme Court ruling reminds employers that overtime eligibility is based on a lot more than…
In order for companies to running smoothly and efficiently, collaboration and trust between Finance and HR is absolutely critical. Unfortunately, the former doesn't seem to have much trust in the latter. (more…)
What’s keeping C-level execs up at night? Just a few small concerns like the new overtime rules, a likely increase in bias claims based on sexual orientation, the Affordable Care Act and the threat of workplace violence. (more…)
The Dept. of Labor (DOL) has checked off the new OT regs from its spring 2016 regulatory to-do list, but that’s not all the agency has in store for employers. (more…)
Everybody's running lean nowadays. But there’s a point where budget cuts can seriously compromise safety. The Philadelphia School District recently learned that lesson the hard way. (more…)
The DOL’s prediction about the new overtime reg’s impact on exempt employees: 4.2 million workers will become non-exempt on Dec. 1, 2016. That means most firms will be dealing with the challenge of transitioning exempt staffers to a non-exempt status.…
It might seem like 2015’s tax season just ended, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to start thinking about 2016’s yet. (more…)
It’s one thing to call the DOL’s final fiduciary rule “arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law,” but it’s another thing altogether to sue the federal agency for creating the rule in the first place. (more…)
