The Internal Reveneue Service (IRS) has announced the 2017 increase to annual pre-tax limits for both full and limited-purpose health Flexible Spending Arrangements (FSA). The increase will take effect January 1, 2017 for plans years beginning on or after that date. ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has approved an update to their Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for the years 2017 through 2021. The SEP identifies areas where the EEOC intends to focus their efforts. For this period the EEOC has identified the...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently issued final guidance on “Retaliation and Related Issues” to update a 1998 Compliance Manual. The update also addresses a provision under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regarding “interference”...
The Department of Labor has recently revised the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) poster and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) poster. Penalty amounts listed on the previous posters are no longer accurate. The penalty increase has come from The Federal Civil...
Z Foods, Inc., was recently ordered by a federal judge to pay $1,470,000 in damages in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. The lawsuit stated that Z Foods allowed male supervisors to harass female employees and then retailiated against both male and female...
