17 Jun Comliance Recap: May 2016

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After a quiet few months, federal agencies were quite busy during the month of May, issuing four important final rules that impact employers. Specifically, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued the long-awaited revisions to the white collar exemptions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; the...

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16 Jun Are You Ready for the Marketplace Notices?

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Original Post from ThinkHR.com By: Laura Kerekes Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), each Health Insurance Exchange (Marketplace) must notify employers when they have an employee who has received a government subsidy to enroll in a health plan through the Marketplace. These notices will begin being sent...

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15 Jun 5 Things Employers Need to Know About Overtime Rules

Posted at 10:00h in ClearPath blog, Compliance News, Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform, Workplace

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Original post benefitsnews.com With compensation taking up the biggest slice of the benefits pie, employers are paying close attention to the Department of Labor’s proposed changes to the overtime rules – expected to be released as early as this month – under the Fair Labor Standards...

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14 Jun The Supreme Court gives employee’s more room to sue you

Posted at 08:30h in ClearPath blog, Compliance News, Workplace

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The Supreme Court’s latest ruling isn’t going to make a lot of employers happy.  The High Court just made it easier for employees to sue, claiming they were constructively discharged. Constructive discharge occurs when an employer makes a person’s working conditions so intolerable — via some underhanded...

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13 Jun What Percentage of Your Life Will You Spend Exercising?

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Original post benefitspro.com How much of your life will you spend exercising? Reebok and Censuswide, a global consulting firm, studied exercise habits of people in nine different countries and came to the conclusion that the average person spends 0.69 percent of their life working out. Or, as the shoe...

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10 Jun Wellness Programs Benefit Employers, Employees

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Original post benefitspro.com Offering employee wellness programs isn’t just an exercise in altruism for employers. It pays off where most companies would value it most: the bottom line. According to Forbes, companies are jumping on the wellness program bandwagon right and left, to varying degrees. In fact,...

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09 Jun Fiduciary Rollout: DOL to Extend a Hand

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Original post employeebenefitadvisor.com WASHINGTON -- As the dust begins to settle after the Department of Labor issued its hotly contested fiduciary regulation, one of the key officials who led the rulemaking initiative says that he anticipates issuing clarifying guidance on an ongoing basis as industry feedback...

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08 Jun Americans Don’t Do Much to Avoid Hearing Loss

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Original post benefitspro.com Have you ever even heard of healthy hearing habits? If not, you’re probably not alone. Relatively few Americans appear to pay much attention to their ears, according to a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of EPIC Hearing Healthcare. The survey found that...

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07 Jun Study Suggests Plan Transparency Doesn’t Reduce Costs

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Original post benefitspro.com “Transparency” and “choice” are keywords associated with health plan consumers these days. But there’s no guarantee those key words will lead to the keyword phrase “lower health plan costs.” One survey of the employees of two large employers reports that, given transparency and choice, plan...

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03 Jun How Agents Can Help Comply with PPACA

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Original post benefitspro.com “You can help your employer clients comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA] by becoming their trusted advisors,” Julie L. Hulsey, CLU, LUTCF, president and CEO, Zynia Business Solutions, Amarillo, Texas, told her audience in her presentation, “Employers’ Greatest Fears:...

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