15 for ’15: Employment and Labor Resolutions for the Coming Year

While the year is still young, here are 15 New Year’s resolutions that employers may want to make: Make sure your “independent contractors” are really independent contractors. “Independent contractors” are under scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, state and local agencies, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and union … Continued

IRS Releases Guidance on Retroactive Transit Benefit Increase for 2014 – Conshohocken Employee Benefits

Yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2015-2 providing guidance on the retroactive transit benefit increase recently enacted by Congress. Employers that offered a commuter or transit benefit plan in 2014 must comply with the guidance if their 2014 plan had provided both pretax and aftertax benefits. No action is required, however, for employers … Continued

Rate Trends and Delay Strategies – Pennsylvania Benefit Broker

There was a nearly 322% increase in the number of plans utilizing an early renewal strategy on December 1, 2013, which delayed many effects of PPACA until December 1, 2014. Of the employers who postponed their renewal date, 94% were small businesses th…

 

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