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In yesterday’s Advisor we featured critical guidance on handling an active shooter in the workplace from Attorney Edwin G. Foulke Jr. Today, Foulke’s 12-point action plan for handling violence in the workplace.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for contributing entities (or entities reporting on their behalf) to submit annual enrollment counts on which they will base their contribution amounts under health care reform’s transitional reinsurance program. The deadline is now 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 5, 2014. Reporting on that date also […]
What HR chore would have HR pros preferring to go to the dentist, to see a movie about the life of Lindsay Lohan, or even to be “fired” by Donald Trump on “The Apprentice” rather than doing?
In yesterday’s Advisor, we began our presentation of the results of BLR’s 2014 Employee Leave Survey; today, results concerning specific types of leave. How does your organization measure up?
Thanks to all 3,158 individuals who participated in the survey! Here are the detailed responses:
State laws barring stop-loss policies with low attachment points are not preempted by ERISA, the U.S. Department of Labor said in Technical Release 2014-01. Ten states have passed such laws, many of them since the advent of the Affordable Care Act. When small groups self-insure, they are subject to proportionately larger impacts from particular expensive claims, have […]
At the end of the year, BLR’s founder, Bob Brady, will be retiring from the company he started 37 years ago.
Yesterday’s Advisor began the Internal Revenue Service’s top 10 401(k) issues; today we hit the rest, again as featured on Compensation.BLR.com®.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published details on the top 10 issues identified during examinations of 401(k) plans. These are the issues that the IRS will be focusing on when conducting an audit.
The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet acted on a request to hear a case that seeks to eliminate health insurance premium subsidies in the states that refused to set up their own health insurance exchanges. The High Court discussed whether to hear King v. Burwell on Oct. 31; however, its Nov. 3 orders from […]