HR Regulation

The IRS has issued initial guidance to help plan sponsors implement the new pension-linked emergency savings accounts - and is open to comments in order to limit participant abuse of sidecar account matching contributions.

Data privacy professionals are keeping an eye on the set of state laws primed to go into effect in 2024.

"I expect that they will be looking for opportunities to apply all of the elements of the guidelines in merger cases -- to some extent, they've already been doing that," said former FTC Chair William Kovacic.

The IRS announcements include a number of dollar amounts employers will need to know in order to administer their benefit plans for 2024, including the key dollar amounts for retirement plans, FSAs, HSAs and HDHPs.

West Hollywood's $19.08/hour wage – resulting from a law passed in 2021 mandating that wage increases be tied to the rate of inflation – is getting pushback from small business owners who want a moratorium on increases.

What do carriers see as the future in the absence management and leave management space?

"I think what employers would really like from the Legislature is more certainty. Not making laws that, to figure out what it means, you have to go to litigation," David A. Rapuano, a partner with Archer & Greiner, said. "To me, and to my clients, it is bad policy to create laws that cannot be figured out unless a court [is involved]."

Providing visible support for this area of care will help change workplace culture as it shows that breastfeeding is everyone's business, because breastfeeding benefits all of us.