HR & Compliance

  • January HR Brief by

    Posted on: January 19, 2015Categories: HR & Compliance

    DID YOU KNOW? In December 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies that require workers to go through security screenings do not need to pay employees for the time they spend waiting in line. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that an employee’s time spent going through a security screening before leaving the workplace is not an integral and indispensable part of the employee’s principal activities. Therefore, this time is not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards ...

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  • FAQS on Affordable Care Act Implementation (Part IV) by

    Posted on: January 15, 2015Categories: HR & Compliance

    Exemption for Group Health Plans with Less than Two Current Employees Q1: Do the HIPAA statutory exemptions in effect since 1997 for group health plans with “less than two participants who are current employees” apply to the Affordable Care Act’s group market reforms? Yes. The preamble to the interim final regulations on grandfathered plans1 noted that statutory provisions in effect since 1997 exempting group health plans with “less than two participants who are current employees” f ...

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  • FAQS on Affordable Care Act Implementation (Part III) by

    Posted on: January 13, 2015Categories: HR & Compliance

    Grandfathered Health Plans Q1: Our company sponsors a group health plan for our employees that has been in effect since March 23, 2010. We and the issuer of the policy under the plan are considering whether we could make various changes to the plan without losing grandfathered status. If we avoid making any of the six specific changes described in paragraph (g)(1) of the interim final regulations relating to grandfathered health plans, are there other changes to our existing plan/policy that w ...

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