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ILN Today Post
May 6, 2020

Group Health Plans: Regulators Extend Deadlines During the COVID-19 Crisis

By Davis+Gilbert LLP

The Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a joint notice on April 28, 2020 (the Notice) providing relief for certain deadlines applicable to group health plan participants and employers during the COVID-19 “Outbreak Period” (as defined in the Notice). Read more…

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March 28, 2019

Predictive Scheduling is Becoming the New Normal for Hospitality and Retail Industry

By Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

Taking the guesswork out of scheduling for wage workers is an attractive proposition for regulators. Laws that require employers to publish employee work schedules a certain amount of time in advance so that employees (especially those in the hospitality and retail industries) can have greater flexibility and work-time predictability to deal with family and other events and responsibilities are becoming more common in several cities, and the state of Oregon currently has predictive scheduling laws on the books, and the trend is growing, with proposed legislation in many jurisdictions across the country.

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Posted in News | North America
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April 9, 2018

New legislation regarding long service benefits for certain industries

By Hall & Wilcox

Last month, the Victorian Parliament introduced new legislation which provides enhanced long service leave benefits for workers in the community services, contract cleaning and security industries.

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Posted in Asia Pacific | Legal Updates
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December 4, 2017

GOP Tax Legislation Poses Challenges to the Health Care Industry

By Robert F. Atlas of Epstein Becker & Green

Perspectives on Health Care and Life Sciences advisory by Bob Atlas, President of EBG Advisors, Inc. 

Following is an excerpt:

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both passed their tax reform bills and will now confer toward creating a unified bill that both chambers can support, and that President Trump will sign. The two bills differ in some key respects, but their implications for health care are already rather clear. Some aspects of the legislation explicitly touch health care, while other effects would be indirect. Overall, it appears that most of the changes would adversely affect many health care industry participants, especially those in the nonprofit sector that would not gain from the reduction in the corporate tax rate that is the central feature of the legislation. …

Posted in Legal Updates | North America
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July 12, 2017

Properly Maintaining Personnel Files

By General Counselor of Arnstein & Lehr

EMPLOYMENT LAW ESSENTIALS

E. Jason Tremblay

E. Jason Tremblay

Properly Maintaining Personnel Files

Since virtually all employment disputes relate in some way to what documents are kept in an employee’s personnel file, it is crucial that employers properly maintain employee personnel files. Of course, few employers enjoy dealing with paperwork, but taking the time to properly create and maintain personnel files will pay off in the long run.

Posted in News | North America
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ILN Today Post
June 30, 2017

South Carolina: South Carolina Policy Council assesses new 2017-18 budget

By McDonald Hopkins LLC of McDonald Hopkins

Governor Henry McMaster signed South Carolina’s Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Appropriations Bill, H. 3720 into law earlier this month, while also vetoing 41 provisions. In a piece titled The State Budget: What You’re Spending in 2017, the South Carolina Policy Council (SCPC) disparaged not only the $27.42 billion budget itself, for being outsized and containing “[w]aste, bad policy, etc.,” but also the process leading up to it, as indiscernible and secretive. The SCPC, founded in 1986, is a think tank whose purpose is “to publish research and analysis showing the relevance of the American republic’s founding principles: limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility.”

The SCPC’s main criticism is that South Carolina’s government is “outpacing the economy – by a lot.” It observes that the 2017-18 budget is the largest in history, and $1.1 billion bigger than last year’s $26.3 billion budget.

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Posted in News | North America
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ILN Today Post
March 27, 2017

Ohio: Think tank supports proposal to streamline municipal tax system

By McDonald Hopkins LLC of McDonald Hopkins

Governor John Kasich released his executive budget proposal for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 in early February, and soon after, lawmakers introduced a budget bill, House Bill 49. Among many other things, HB 49 attempts to improve the municipal tax system by transferring the responsibility – from individual municipalities to the state – for collecting and administering municipal income taxes on business income, excluding sole proprietors and other single-member entities owned by one individual, starting in 2018.

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Posted in Legal Updates | North America
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ILN Today Post
March 11, 2016

Contractual status of benefits

By Fladgate LLP of Fladgate LLP

“In the past, we have typically paid employees a bonus of £1,000 in January as a “thank you” for their efforts the previous year.  Pay reviews are carried out at the same time.  2015 was a difficult year for our business and we need to make some cut backs.  Can we avoid paying an annual bonus and awarding a pay increase this year?”

Before going so far as to revoke any existing benefits, an employer should first look at its employment contracts and any other contractual documentation to ensure that there is no clear contractual entitlement to the same.  Obviously, if there is, then a failure to honour such terms will amount to a breach of contract.

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Posted in Europe | News
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