WEX Inc.

JUNE 5, 2023

If you’re a small business owner, the qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSEHRA) might be the benefits plan you’re looking for. A QSEHRA is a tax-advantaged benefits plan funded by the employer that employees can tap into to pay for eligible expenses. What employers are eligible to offer one?

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PeopleKeep

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since it first became available in 2017, the qualified small employer HRA (QSEHRA) has been offering small employers the unique opportunity to reimburse their employees, tax-free, for their individual insurance premiums and qualifying healthcare expenses.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 30, 2022

As jobs were lost and employment shifted, there were "inefficiencies., According to ABC News, the current proposal would come in two parts: " Assembly Bill 1400 would set up "CalCare," a state-run, statewide system, and Assembly Constitutional Amendment 11 would change the state's tax code to pay for it through a voter referendum."

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AssuredPartners

JANUARY 22, 2018

{"ops":[{"insert":"While we all may not wish to applaud Congress today, many Employers and Plan Sponsors have something to be grateful for. House of Representatives included a two-year delay of the 40% “Cadillac Tax” in their proposal to continue funding the government until February 8, 2018. The leaders of the U.S.

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The off payroll working rules, often referred to as IR35, were changed for the public sector in 2017, when liability for determining the tax position fell to the entity engaging the consultant. To assist businesses, the government introduced its own SDA, known as ‘check employment status for tax’ (CEST).

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Insperity

JANUARY 5, 2017

If you’ve still got someone entering timesheet data by hand, 2017 is the year to automate your HR processes. It was simpler to stay in compliance with state and federal regulations related to employment back then. Employees can check their pay stubs, tax information and PTO balances without involving their manager or HR representative.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 24, 2023

An employment tribunal has ordered private hire cab and courier business Addison Lee to pay deposits of up to £125,000 to continue with its legal arguments in the workers’ rights case brought by hundreds of drivers.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened 6,812 new investigations into employers suspected of violating immigration laws—everything from hiring undocumented workers to making errors on their I-9 Forms. That’s a 14% increase from 2018, but a whopping 400% jump from the number of investigations filed in 2016 and 2017.

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Benefits Notes

MAY 16, 2022

Employers sponsoring 401(k) or other types of defined contribution plans “pre-approved” by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should be aware that the restatement deadline is quickly approaching. Failing to timely adopt a Cycle 3 restatement may jeopardize a plan’s favorable tax status.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An employment tribunal has ruled that Lancashire County Council must pay out more than £800,000 to a teacher who was made to reapply for her job while on sick leave with cancer and then sacked. Healey returned to work in May 2016 but required more treatment in 2017 as the cancer had returned, and was then off until early 2019.

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cipHR

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We have a further mid-year change to national insurance (NI) with impact for employers, employees, payroll suppliers and HR and payroll teams. Income tax changes. percentage point increase for the remainder of the 2022-23 tax year. NI changes. IR35 reforms changes. New investment zones.

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Corporate Synergies

AUGUST 19, 2019

Health savings accounts (HSAs) continue to increase in popularity, but not without issues for both employees and employers. 1 That number is projected to keep growing as more employers offer high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) with HSAs. And the average HSA balance grew by just $110 from 2017 to 2018. Problems for Employers.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 7, 2024

There was opportunity to expand to a wider view of employer-led interventions which go far beyond occupational health services. “There is a real and urgent need for a workforce plan for the UK to raise employer investment in skills and support workers’ wellbeing and participation in the labour market.

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The Workcomp Writer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Background On May 24, 2016, Jacque Lucas and Daniel Simerly (collectively, “the employees”) were involved in a horrific accident at their workplace, a paper mill owned by KapStone Charleston Kraft, LLC (“the employer”). Paper is the parent corporation of the employer’s sole member, Kraft. KapStone Paper, et al. LEXIS 140 (Nov.

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Employee Benefits

OCTOBER 18, 2023

HM Courts and Tribunal Service’s June 2023 data revealed an increasing number of employment tribunal cases citing menopause as a contributing factor. In 2017, there were five cases, increasing to six in 2018 and seven in 2019. Employers need to ensure that women experiencing menopause are treated with empathy and understanding.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

December 2015) Does Farr's Law Bring us Good News (July 2017) The Time has Come, the Time is Now (April 2021) There has been significant coverage of the Opioid epidemic in America, and the havoc wreaked by a massive production and marketing conspiracy over decades. Some samples from the past: What Worthwhile can you do in 11.2

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 27, 2022

The IRS assigned one Employer Identification Number to your business. Make sure you check the same quarter box on Schedule B , the Report of Tax Liability for Semiweekly Schedule Depositors. Schedule B hasn’t been reissued since 2017, so the red circle and slash won’t appear. Use consistent EINs. 1, 2021, complete Line 5a.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Incorporating lifestyle components into pre-tax accounts. So, how will this affect tax advantaged accounts like Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts? Tools like HSA Bridge allows employees to pay for qualified expenses with tax-free money before their HSA balance has built up. What’s on the horizon?

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Griffin Benefits

JULY 21, 2022

between 2017 (31 incidents) and 2021 (61 incidents). For example, MGM Resorts International and its insurers were ordered to pay an $800 million settlement to more than 4,400 victims and their families following the 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 individuals and injured more than 850 at the company’s Las Vegas resort, Mandalay Bay.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Following this, there is increasing pressure for employers not just to report the numbers but instead understand the reason for the gap. In May 2019, 47 employers were named and shamed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for failing to submit their gender pay reports within the deadline. average difference that existed.

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Employee Benefits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The bill, which forms part of the government’s 2017 Good Work Plan, gives certain workers, agency staff and employees a new statutory right to request a predictable working pattern from their employers.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Lord Lloyd Jones, Lady Rose and the other judges stated that confirmation that rights to bargain collectively under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights only apply to those in an employment relationship with a work provider.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a separate issue, the appellate court also held that Section 204(a) of the Act, which allows an employer to offset a portion of the Social Security retirement benefits received by an injured employee, was not unconstitutional. Accordingly, the WCJ granted the employer’s petitions. Philadelphia Coca-Cola ( Workers’ Comp.

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Higginbotham

JULY 12, 2022

This may be a good option for employers that want to simplify their health plan administration while giving employees flexibility. According to the Commonwealth Fund , more than one in 20 Americans under the age of 64 spent at least $1,700 on out-of-pocket medical expenses in 2017. HRAs are owned by the employer. 1, 2020).

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Benefit Resource Inc.

OCTOBER 30, 2018

According to the 2017 Benefits Communication Survey from Jellyvision, almost half of employees report enrolling in benefits as “always very stressful” That’s scary. When it comes to pre-tax benefits specifically, we found three areas that are common culprits: Gaps in understanding of pre-tax benefits.

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AssuredPartners

JUNE 11, 2018

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AssuredPartners

DECEMBER 12, 2018

{"ops":[{"insert":"The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L. 115-97, signed into law at the end of December 2017 created a Federal Tax Credit for employers that provide paid family and medical leave to their employees in 2018 and 2019. The Credit for employers may total between 12.5% and 25% of the qualifying wages.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 25, 2023

Law firm Swift Lawyers has been ordered to pay damages of £18,800 after an employment tribunal found that it had unfairly dismissed a pregnant paralegal. Farzana Yasin joined the firm in 2017 to work on cavity wall insulation claims.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 19, 2023

See The First Social Program Bankruptcy is Upon Us (June 2014); Time for That Bake Sale (August 2015); One Year to Insolvency (September 2015); Nationalization, Participation, and Disease (December 2017); and Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears (March 2022)(which includes citation to other federalization posts).

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Business Management Daily

MAY 4, 2020

That original bill provided twelve weeks of unpaid leave to qualified employees of covered employers. Employers were covered if they employed 50 or more employees in a 75-mile radius. Employers could elect to substitute paid leave for unpaid leave. Employers were not required to pay employees for any of these types of leave.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

JULY 21, 2020

While the last several months were fraught with uncertainty and changes, we also saw several clarifications for pre-tax benefits, including Qualified Transportation Fringe Benefits. The IRS released potential changes to a provision within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). tax-exempt organizations with unrelated trades and businesses.

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AssuredPartners

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled that the ACA individual mandate penalty (tax) was constitutional in 2012, and in December of 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which reduced the individual mandate penalty to zero as of January 1, 2019. In fact, Massachusetts has been taxing its citizens since 2007.nIn

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Corporate Synergies

AUGUST 6, 2018

High deductible health plans (HDHPs) are on the rise as a growing number of employers turn to consumer-directed health plans to try to curb costs—the portion of employees enrolled in HDHPs rose from 26.3% million accounts in 2006 to over 22 million at the end of 2017. This is even better tax treatment than the typical retirement plan!

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Business Management Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Baseball fans remember the team’s 2017 cheating scandal. Dishonest employers are not particularly attractive. Job candidates may run in the other direction when they learn about a potential employer’s questionable practices through social media or their own LinkedIn network. Fudging tax returns. Hiring illegal workers.

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Insperity

JUNE 26, 2018

Households in 2016 – May 2017 from the Federal Reserve, 63 percent of college students ages 18-29 indicated they acquired debt to finance their bachelor’s degree. Student Loan Hero estimates that the average debt for graduating seniors with student loans rose to $39,400 in 2017, up 6 percent from the previous year.

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Genesis HR Solutions

AUGUST 19, 2020

Like almost every other industry, professional employer organizations (PEOs) have been forced by the global pandemic to ask themselves this question. Get an in-depth look at professional employer organizations and why you should consider partnering with one. “What is our industry’s new normal?” Click To Tweet. million to 3.7

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AssuredPartners

MAY 9, 2019

This employer-provided voluntary benefits program allows employees to effectively reduce their monthly commuting or transit costs. In 2019, the monthly limit is $265 for any commuter benefit or transit pass.

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