On November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the interim final rule on emergency temporary standard.  The ETS requires businesses with 100 or more employees to mandate their employees get vaccinated against the...

September 30th marks the end of the ARPA COBRA premium subsidy provisions, which required employers to provide "assistance eligible individuals" (AEIs) with a 100% subsidy for premiums otherwise owed for COBRA coverage. Employers are reimbursed for the...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2021-36, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2022 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared...

President Orders OSHA To Develop Mandatory Vaccine Requirement for Large EmployersOn September 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he ordered OSHA to develop emergency temporary standards (ETSs) that would require employers with 100 or more employees...

In a televised address on Thursday September 9th, President Biden announced that new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules would be released in coming weeks mandating that employers with 100 or more employees require their employees to...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has stated they recognize the continuing impact of the pandemic on business operations and have extended the deadline to submit and certify 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 Reports to Monday, October...