There is not a lot that Democrats and Republicans can agree on with respect to Obamacare, but on April 1, 2014 the President signed into law a Medicare bill which had a provision tucked inside that will bring some important…
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Cozen Issues Alert on Effort to Update Overtime Rules
Cozen O’Connor has issued an alert regarding the recently announced plan to overhaul the overtime rules, including the salary exemption threshold. This is an important development that will affect all employers, and the full text can be found here. About…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, overtime, salary exemption
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
More Delays for Obamacare
Today, the IRS issued final regulations concerning the employer mandate portion of Obamacare. The imposition of the employer mandate had previously been postponed from 2014 to 2015, and now has been pushed back one more year for employers with less…
Tagged with: ACA, Obamacare
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
NLRB Gives Up on Poster Fight
On January 6, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) gave up on its fight to require all employers to post a notice informing employees of their right to form a union. The NLRB’s mandatory poster rule was invalidated by…
Supreme Court Hears First Sarbanes-Oxley Case
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in its first Sarbanes-Oxley case (Lawson v. FMR LLC, et al., No. 12-3). The question before the Court is whether the law’s whistleblower protections extend to employees of contractors hired by public companies. …
Senate Passes ENDA
On November 7, the Senate passed the Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would amend Title VII to add discrimination protections to homosexual and transgendered employees. Ten Republicans voted for the legislation, but the primary argument against the bill is…
Don’t Mess With Texas
On November 4, 2013, the state of Texas sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its recently promulgated “enforcement guidance” related to background check policies and the hiring of felons. The lawsuit, found here, states that “The state of Texas…
IRS Allows Carry Over in Flex Plans
For the first time, the IRS has now decided that it will allow employees to carry over up to $500 in their flexible spending accounts to the next plan year. The notice issued by the IRS on October 31, 2013…
Federal Government Shutdown – Who is Open?
With the federal government mired in an extended shut down, I thought it would be interesting to take stock of which agencies are working and which are not in case you have an ongoing investigation and are wondering whether a…
