On February 28, 2018 the Internal Revenue Service released an updated Withholding Calculator and a new version of Form W-4 to help taxpayers check their 2018 tax withholding following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December. The IRS urges taxpayers to use...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced 84,254 workplace discrimination charges were filed with the federal agency nationwide during fiscal year (FY) 2017. The fiscal year ended September 30, 2017. EEOC states they secured $398 million for...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced in January it would stay the April 1, 2018 date in which employee benefit plans must comply with the final rule on disability claims. This rule will give America’s workers new procedural protections when dealing with plan...
Employers can now begin to electronically report their Calendar Year (CY) 2017 Form 300A data to OSHA. All covered establishments must submit the information by July 1, 2018. Employers can view their submitted CY 2016 Form 300A summary information, but they cannot...
As part of a short-term federal spending bill, phase in of the so called “Cadillac Tax” has been delayed from 2020 to 2022. This unpopular provision of the Affordable Care Act imposes a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health plans. The tax was...
