Money Talk

APRIL 12, 2023

As a result, tax rates (applied to converted IRA dollar amounts) are scheduled to increase in 2026. Widowhood Challenges - Part of many older adults’ later life will be spent living as a single person, but few couples proactively plan for this. One size does not fit all” when it comes to a surviving spouse’s financial needs.

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InterWest Insurance Services

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

What the new rule does Starting in 2026: Insurers will be required to approve or deny an urgent prior authorization request for medical items and services within 72 hours of receipt. The takeaway The new rule does not take effect until 2026 to give insurers and other payers more time to put in place API systems that can expedite the process.

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HR Digest

MAY 21, 2024

The Colorado AI discrimination bill goes into effect on Feb 1, 2026, but employers and other agencies will have to begin planning ahead in adherence to these regulations. Even if the AI is not one they have created themselves, as deployers of the AI , they need to be well-informed about its functionality and any changes that are made to it.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 17, 2024

With land purchase anticipated to be finalized next year, construction is set to begin in 2026. The Government Property Agency (GPA) has exchanged contracts with Manchester City Council (MCC) to acquire five acres of the former Central Retail Park in Ancoats, paving the way for the construction of the Manchester Digital Campus.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 16, 2024

This includes plans to acquire over 20,000 advanced GPUs by 2026 and significantly expand their data centre footprint in the country. These include increased productivity, improved public services, and the creation of new jobs. Microsoft has pledged to play a role in addressing these challenges. They’ve announced a £2.5

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Employee Benefits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The organisation will also further strengthen its aim of gender diversity by targeting more than 35% of women in senior leadership roles by 2026, and is committed to being a responsible employer of choice by embedding a performance and accountability focused culture and increasing its employee engagement score. million) total wage bill.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MARCH 31, 2023

Under the proposal, starting in 2026, insurers would be required to render a decision within seven days for a non-urgent service or item (compared to the current 14 days), and 72 hours if it is urgent. The rule is aimed at tackling one of the biggest headaches for patients and practitioners alike.

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InterWest Insurance Services

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

1, 2026, it applies to all licensed contractors or applicants for licensure, regardless of classification, unless they are organized as a joint venture and file a certificate of exemption from workers’ compensation. 1, 2026, it finds a contractor had employees and did not have comp coverage. Tree service contractors (D-49).

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Decided with the Unitary Trade Union Representation, FIOM CGIL and FIM CISL, the draft agreement for the years 2023-2026 sets out new work models that will not impact starting pay to be implemented initially on an experimental basis.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 14, 2024

The company will shift to offices at 10 Gresham Street in 2026, coinciding with the expiration of its lease at One Canada Square, the iconic pyramid-topped skyscraper in the heart of the east London estate. This move adds to the trend of financial firms opting to leave the Docklands district.

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 17, 2024

In order to combat its gaps, Salesforce has appointed a vice president of equality strategy in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and a dedicated UK equality partner, and also introduced a multi-year gender goal to reach 40% women-identifying and non-binary employees globally by the end of 2026.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MARCH 12, 2024

These medications temporarily reverse overdoses from prescription and illicit opioids, are not addictive and are not harmful to people when administered. In its Dec. 8 petition to Cal/OSHA’s Standards Board, the NSC asked it to add naloxone to the list of required items in both construction sites as well as general industry workplaces.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 20, 2024

A KPMG report found last year that two-thirds of CEOs envisage a full return to in-office work by 2026, right now though it is about finding a golden middle that works for both businesses and employees. How can we make offices valued spaces once again? Adding to this, 27 percent said that they also value wellness spaces (e.g.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 7, 2024

We are very much on track to deliver our bold five-year growth plan to double sales by 2026 and to have significantly more than 3,000 shops in the UK over the longer term.” Bakery chain Greggs is to share a £17.6 million bonus among some of its employees after posting a record annual profit.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition, the employment allowance will be retained at a higher level of £5,000 until March 2026. Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt told the House of Commons in his autumn budget that the freeze would continue to April 2028.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

DECEMBER 15, 2023

(Reminder: the IRS granted a 2-year “administrative transition period” for the Roth catch-up requirement described in more detail here , which will now be required starting in 2026). The technical corrections bill changes the effective date for the 10% ceiling rate cap for non-safe harbor plans to plan years ending before January 1, 2026.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 16, 2024

Construction has already started on the scheme, which is scheduled for completion in 2026 and will contain 131,000 sq ft of laboratory and office space across six floors. Construction has already started on the scheme, which is scheduled for completion in 2026 and will contain 131,000 sq ft of laboratory and office space across six floors.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unite will also work with Brake Brothers on its proposals to invest an additional £10 million to extend the Newhouse facility by 50,000 square feet in 2026, which will enable further growth and could see the creation of up to 100 new jobs. More than 400 employees at food distributors Brake Brothers have accepted a pay deal of between 19.3%

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 16, 2024

The following amendment deadlines now apply: For plans other than collectively bargained plans, the deadline is December 31, 2026. For all other collectively bargained plans, the deadline is December 31, 2026. Approximately one year after Congress enacted the SECURE 2.0 implementation issues and extends the plan amendment deadline.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 2, 2024

Although the deadline for connecting is 31 October 2026, trustees and pension scheme providers are expected to aim to connect by the timetable outlined in the guidance rather than waiting until the strict legal deadline. It is also a valuable tool for those with certain financial goals in mind.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s also the latest step in our ambition to be leading in our sector on diversity, equity and inclusion by 2026. RSA Insurance is to introduce equal parental leave from January 2024 in order to add to its family-friendly provision. The new policy will offer all parents up to 52 weeks of equal leave, 26 of which will be fully paid. It

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 9, 2024

billion investment to upskill the UK workforce for the AI era and to build the infrastructure to power the AI economy, including a commitment to bring 20,000 of the most advanced graphics processing units to the country by 2026. The new AI hub will be led by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Construction of ECMWF’s modern, accessible, and highly sustainable headquarters is scheduled to start towards the end of this year and completion is expected in Autumn 2026, after Wokingham Borough Council approved the development at its February 2024 Planning Committee.

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HR Digest

APRIL 27, 2022

According to the United States Bureau of Labour Statistics, by 2026, demand for skilled data scientists will give a 27.9% As the world drowns in all forms of data, an operations research analyst helps figure out a method to the madness. One of the top 10 stress free jobs, as it allows for flexibility and autonomy. Dental Hygienist.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A report by Go Globe posits that by 2026, up to 1.4 On the surface, the problem looks easy enough to solve with a few training courses or another few rounds of firing and rehiring to find the right talent for the evolving job roles. Unfortunately, the problem is a little more complex than it first appears.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2023

The law was passed in June 2020 and is expected to have been implemented in June 2026. To confirm their strictness with this law, organizations that fail to reach the appropriate quota by 2026 will eventually pay fines and risk losing certain positions on their boards. It’s a huge risk for organizations not to follow this directive.

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InterWest Insurance Services

APRIL 13, 2023

The goal of the proposed rule, which would take effect in 2026, is to reduce the bureaucracy around prior authorizations and cut wait times for responses that some providers say sometimes take weeks to get approved. a number of the country’s largest insurers announced their own steps to improve the process.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

MAY 8, 2024

Effective February 16, 2026 , a group health plan must update its Notice of Privacy Practices to support reproductive health care privacy rights and address confidentiality of substance use disorder patient records as required under the CARES Act of 2020.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

AUGUST 28, 2023

Notice 2023-62 addresses these concerns by giving plan sponsors until January 1, 2026 to implement the SECURE 2.0 , this deadline presented challenges given the necessary operational changes and outstanding questions regarding certain aspects of the statute. Roth catch-up rule. that inadvertently eliminated catch-up contributions altogether.

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Money Talk

APRIL 14, 2022

Roth IRA Conversions - Taxpayers concerned about rising tax rates (their own or the government’s) might want to convert money in a traditional IRA to a tax-free Roth IRA before tax rates are set to rise in 2026. This leaves charitable donations as a path to itemizing. Safe Harbor Rule - A previous year tax return (e.g.,

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Employee Benefits

JULY 24, 2023

After a week of negotiations with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) the Aslef Executive Committee and trade union RMT agreed to suspend the planned industrial action on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July after receiving confirmation that there would be no change to the pension scheme until 2026.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The options have a contract start date of 1 December 2022 and are exercisable between 1 December 2025 and 31 May 2026. Image credit: AL Robinson / Shutterstock.com. Online fashion retailer Boohoo has given shares to more than 1,100 of its employees, including several members of its senior leadership. They were issued a total of 32.2

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Construction of the new government hub will begin in October 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2026. The UK government has purchased land for the permanent site of the new Darlington Economic Campus as a key part of its so-called levelling up programme.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 25, 2024

In comparison, just 19 percent of non-graduates plan to independently upskill and only 18 percent expect access to this through their employer between now and 2026. This is likely to result from limited access to the financial resources one needs to undertake training.

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Employee Benefits

JUNE 8, 2023

The UK government has issued an update on its planned pensions dashboards programme , stating that it needs additional delivery time and its connection deadline will be 31 October 2026. It stated that this will give the programme the flexibility to be completed effectively.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 10, 2023

percent between 2021 and 2026. In 2022, the Brighton based firm launched its new dedicated B2E (business to employee) comms division in light of research it commissioned which revealed a gap in the market, particularly for FM firms, many of which are struggling to unite dispersed teams in the era of hybrid working and talent shortages.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This will then change to 3% in 2025/26, 4% in 2026/27, and 5% in 2027/28.” Alfonso Martinez, UK managing director at ALD Automotive/LeasePlan, says: “Zero and low-emission company car drivers enjoy lower benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax rates, which are fixed at 2% until April 2025.

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