A growing number of small businesses are looking to professional employer organizations for help with HR and benefits issues.

As many small and midsized employers struggle for the first time to comply with certain requirements of the Affordable Care Act, it will be welcome news to learn that adding voluntary benefits to their offerings will not trigger any changes to the IRS W-2 reporting requirements.

In light of the DOLs recent hardline stance on the subject of plan sponsor obligations under ERISA (GAP Stores and others have recently been sued in breach of fiduciary lawsuits), I believe that the new safe haven transparency standard for plan sponsors must be fiduciary-level transparency.