On June 13, 2019, the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury jointly issued a final rule that will allow employers of all sizes to provide tax-free reimbursements to employees who purchase individual health insurance coverage. Prior...
The Department of Labor (DOL) will change its procedures for processing H-2B applications for labor certification. This change came about after the Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s (OFLC’s) current electronic filing system crashed on Jan 1 due to “unprecedented...
The Department of Labor (DOL) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would make more than a million more American workers eligible for overtime.Currently, employees with a salary below $455 per week ($23,660 annually) must be paid overtime if they...
Due to the recent partial lapse in appropriations, the opening of the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) has been postponed until early March 2019. The deadline to submit EEO-1 data will be extended to May 31, 2019.Filing the EEO-1 is mandatory for employers with 100...
OSHA published a Final Rule to amend its recordkeeping regulation to remove the requirement to electronically submit to OSHA information from the OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses) and OSHA Form 301 (Injury and Illness Incident Report) for...
