HR Benefits
Benefits are a form of compensation paid by employers to employees over and above the amount of pay specified as a base salary or hourly rate of pay. Benefits are a portion of a total compensation package for employees. Employee benefits are designed to provide security to you and your family, and to improve your quality of life. This is FindLaw’s collection of HR Benefits articles, part of the Human Resources section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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HR Benefits Articles
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New COBRA Guidance Requires Employers To Overhaul Notices And COBRA Procedures
Just over one year ago, the Department of Labor issued proposed COBRA regulations that contained dramatic changes to the content of COBRA notices as well as the manner in which notices were required to be issued. On May 26, 2004, the DOL finalized ...
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New Final Cobra Regulations
The Treasury Department published new, final COBRA regulations on February 3, 1999. The final regulations replace previously proposed COBRA regulations published in 1987. The final regulations are in the same "question and answer" format as the 1987 ...
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New Guidance on Administration of Health Care Plans
This update describes two recent developments that may affect the administration of your health care plans. Last October, the Departments of Labor and Health Human Services published general guidance on the Women.s Health and Cancer Rights Act of ...
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New Immigration Law Affects Employers
On September 30, 1996, President Clinton signed what was heralded as a tough, new immigration law. The law, much of which took effect on April 1, 1997, has received a great deal of attention in the press and other media for toughening "green card ...
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No Disability Insurance Coverage Under COBRA
In this era of complicated and ever changing health care laws, business owners - both large and small - received some guidance recently from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ruling in a case of first impression, the court held that ...
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Nonimmigrant Visas
The popular H-1B visa is an employer-specific visa which allows U.S. companies to hire degreed foreign professionals. Employees holding H-1B visas may work in the U.S. for an initial period of three years, renewable for a maximum of six years ...
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IRS Allows Employers to Provide Grace Period For Flexible Spending Accounts
On May 18, 2005, the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2005-42 which permits employers to adopt a grace period of up to 2½ months after a plan year for participants in flexible spending accounts ("FSAs") to use FSA funds which were unused ...
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Pension and Welfare Brief: Can the Retiree Health Benefits Provided by Your Employer Be Cut?
Providing for health care is an important part of retirement. Some employees are fortunate: they belong to employer-provided health care plans that carry over to retirement. However, an important question arises for employees and retirees: How ...
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Report To Congress On The Eb-5 Investor Visa Program
The Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999, Public Law 105-277, directs the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to report to Congress "to propose any legislative remedies that may be ...
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Saying Too Much: Court Turns Retirement Incentive Offer Into Guaranteed Lifetime Retiree Health Benefits Plan
In what stands as a warning to all employers that offer enhanced welfare benefits as a retirement incentive during a reduction in force, in DeBoard v. Sunshine Mining and Refining Co., 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 6212 (10th Cir. 2000), the Tenth Circuit ...
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