InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’ll provide tips for successfully filing 2021 ACA reporting forms (1094-C / 1095-C) and we’ll also cover recent legal and regulatory changes, including certain “transparency” rules taking effect in 2022.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2022

According to a report by As You Sow , a shareholder advocacy firm, 2021 saw a significant increase in shareholder rejections of CEO pay packages. In late 2021 and early 2022, companies implemented pay raises across the board, even for those below the executive and management levels. This amounted to more than $1.2

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As we previously reported , on July 9, 2021, the PBGC issued an interim final rule pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARP”) explaining how it intends to calculate the special financial assistance for multiemployer plans in critical and declining status (i.e.,

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Rumeld: Welcome to The Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insight on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. When we in the ERISA community look back at 2020 and 2021, we will remember it as a historic period for fee and investment litigation. With nearly 60 of those decisions being handed down and 2021.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This episode is the final installment of our three-part series on a new special financial assistance program created by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for troubled multiemployer plans and the interim guidance issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regarding the program. So let’s turn to the reinstatement of MPRA suspensions.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

AUGUST 3, 2021

ROBERT PROJANSKY : Hello and welcome to the Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insights on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. The series is going to focus on the interim guidance issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in July 2021 regarding this program. I’m Rob Projansky. Hi, Justin. JUSTIN ALEX : Hi, Rob.

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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

JANUARY 11, 2023

We recently reported on an FAQ issued December 23, 2022 (FAQ About Affordable Care Act and Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Implementation Part 56) by the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments).

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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

JULY 26, 2022

The tax, which went into effect on January 1, 2021, […]. Last month, the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a challenge to the recently enacted payroll expense tax in Seattle, WA. Seattle Metro. Chamber of Commerce v. City of Seattle, No. 82830-4-I, 2022 WL 2206828 (Wash. June 21, 2022).

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JULY 7, 2023

Additionally, in November 2021, the SEC indicated its concern and scrutiny of spring-loaded awards, by issuing accounting guidelines in Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 120 , explaining how companies should properly recognize and disclose compensation cost for spring-loaded awards.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This suggests that there are far greater concerns with employers’ financial viability during the pandemic, especially if it is prolonged over 2021 and beyond. Many organizations are opting for a playing a waiting game before taking significant action in executive compensation. Sales Compensation.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

For a calendar fiscal year employer that sponsors an annual incentive program which provides that an employee will vest in any amounts earned if the employee is employed as of the last day of the calendar year, annual incentive payments earned in 2021 must be paid on or prior to March 15, 2022 to qualify as short-term deferral payments.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

This suggests that there are far greater concerns with employers’ financial viability during the pandemic, especially if it is prolonged over 2021 and beyond. Many organizations are opting for a playing a waiting game before taking significant action in executive compensation. Sales Compensation.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The SEC’s final rule on Pay Versus Performance becomes effective on October 8, 2022, and will require new executive compensation disclosures for the upcoming proxy season (for annual proxy statements that include executive compensation disclosure for fiscal years ending on or after December 16, 2022).

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Benefits Notes

MARCH 31, 2021

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “ARPA”) into law. The individual is a qualifying individual and already enrolled in COBRA coverage on April 1, 2021, or enrolls in COBRA coverage during the “special enrollment period” described below. Subsidized COBRA.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On October 14, 2021, the U.S. Comments are due no later than December 13, 2021. The Proposed Rules represent the culmination of that review and, if finalized in their current (or substantially similar) form, could reverse some of what some perceive as the “anti-ESG” effects of the Trump-era rules.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Proposed Rule is the culmination of the FTC’s recent efforts, following President Biden’s July 9, 2021 Executive Order on promoting competition in the economy, to enhance its scrutiny of anticompetitive practices and policies in the workplace.

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