by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Human Resources
Is your employee handbook up to date? Contact Sonja Burnside, Keyser HR Consulting, at sburnside@keyseragency.com or 877.381.3570 x 460 for information about our employee handbook services and discounted rates available through March 31, 2021. By Lisa...
by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Human Resources
By Allen Smith, JD Employers are not required to provide Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) leave after Dec. 31, 2020, but may voluntarily decide to do so, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced. “The Wage and Hour Division is attuned to the...
by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
The Michigan Bureau of Employment Relations, Wage and Hour Division today announced the state’s scheduled minimum wage increase is not expected to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act of 2018 prohibits scheduled minimum...
by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
By Richard S. Siegel and Jeffrey S. Swyers A recent Supreme Court decision gives states leeway to impose new regulations on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), even when PBMs are acting on behalf of ERISA plans. On December 10, 2020, in an 8-0 unanimous decision (with...
by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
The DOL, IRS, and HHS have issued regulations to provide greater flexibility for grandfathered group health plan sponsors and insurers to make certain cost-sharing changes without causing a loss of grandfather status. Grandfathered plans are group health plans (or...
