February 2025 Employer Regulatory and Legislative Update | CBIZ

February 2025 Employer Regulatory and Legislative Update | CBIZ, Inc.

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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. 

Withdrawal of Proposed Regulations Related to Reproductive Health | Learn More

The proposed rules relating to contraception issued in October have been withdrawn. See past Benefit Beat here. If you are keeping track, this means two sets of contraceptive related proposed regulations have been withdrawn in recent weeks.

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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