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This article series highlights the requirements for determining Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) eligibility. The last installment focused on determining in loco parentis. Now we’ll look at what to do when your state leave law differs from the federal FMLA law.
By Charlie Plumb, JD, McAfee & Taft Taking action against an employee after she returns from a Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) absence can expose an employer to claims of FMLA retaliation. But sometimes it takes an employee’s absence to learn about her performance issues. So how should an employer handle disciplining someone who is returning […]
Yesterday we took a look at a few tips for getting new hires up to speed efficiently. Today, a few more tips.
By Elise James-DeCruise In yesterday’s Advisor, guest columnist Elise James-DeCruise discussed how Snapchat has been embraced as a communications and learning tool at her company, MediaMath. Today, James-DeCruise has tips on getting started with Snapchat at your organization.
Yesterday’s Advisor took a look at how the slew of sick leave laws have left a new trend in their wake: paid family leave. Today we’ll look at the Department of Labor’s (DOL) plan to research this type of leave.
Productivity is a huge area of focus for many organizations. And rightfully so, if your workers aren’t being productive, chances are your organization isn’t doing so great! We get it. Not all jobs are as glamorous as we’d want them to be, and sometimes taking a break helps us get productive. But sometimes workers take […]
By Jane Meacham, retirement plans editor The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins, 13-1339, U.S. (May 16, 2016), which encourages Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plaintiffs to allege a “concrete” injury, is viewed by many in the ERISA legal community as likely to reshape litigation against employer-sponsored retirement plans.
By Jennifer Carsen, JD, Senior Legal Editor In a new guidance dated April 14, 2016, the IRS states that an employer may not exclude from an employee’s gross income payments of cash rewards for participating in a wellness program.
As healthcare costs continue to rise, financial pressure does, too. Your employees are feeling it, especially if you’ve had to shift an increasing share of healthcare costs to them. Higher copays and coinsurance may help control premiums, but they do nothing to rein in employee out-of-pocket costs. To the contrary, in fact.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recently released a study of revenues needed for PBGC to continue to protect participants in multiemployer plans that are likely to run out of money—and the news isn’t good.