This regulatory and legislative update covers issues involving Mental Health Parity, mandatory paid leave, coordination of employer-provided PTO and state-mandated paid leave, and more.
Mental Health Parity A Rocky Road | Learn More
The twists and turns and ups and downs of mental health parity compliance seem never ending. On January 17, 2025, a lawsuit challenging the mental health parity final regulations, (see Mental Health Parity At Issue, here) was filed by the ERISA Industry Committee.
Mandatory Paid Leave – Taxes? Offsets? So Many Questions. | Learn More
To tax or not to tax? How to coordinate with other available paid leave? These are some of the questions recently tackled by the IRS and the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.
The Coordination Chaos | Learn More
The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued its opinion letter on January 14, 2025, providing guidance on how to coordinate employer-provided paid time off (PTO) with state mandated paid family leave and federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
A Facelift for VFCP | Learn More
The Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) offers a Voluntary Fiduciary Compliance Program (VFCP) allowing ERISA plan fiduciaries to correct certain errors in returns for which penalties would be waived.
2025 FPL Guidelines | Learn More
The Department of Health and Human Services has released the federal poverty level (FPL) guidelines for 2025.
2025 Inflationary Adjustments to Civil Money Penalties | Learn More
Failure to abide by certain reporting and disclosure obligations could result in civil penalties being assessed by the Department of Labor (DOL).
New York 2025 Health Assessment | Learn More
The New York Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) has been in effect since the mid-1990’s and is renewed periodically.
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