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Employee Buy-in Helps Self-funding Manufacturer Cap Cost Growth
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Group Health Insurance, Self Insurance
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Ohio
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In this special report, learn how a small manufacturing company in Ohio kept its health care costs down by returning health fund savings to employees and what lessons this experience has for other self-insured employers.
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New Child Labor Regulations
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Employment of Minors
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This special report examines the U. S. Department of Labor's summer 2010 comprehensive revision of federal child labor regulations, the most extensive revision in 30 years. .
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Novel Approaches to Reducing Business Travel Costs
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Report
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Fringe Benefits, Policies And Liability
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Employers have gotten creative in cutting business travel expenses in recent years. For example, Embassy Suites Hotels found in a survey that 17 percent of respondents have shared hotel rooms with colleagues on business trips in the past year.
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Containing Health Care Costs Using Value-based Payments
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Group Health Insurance, Health Care
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Value-based payments are emerging as a means of containing health care costs by addressing three areas of risk to target health plan changes, as this special report describes. .
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Health Care Reform's No-Rescission Rule and COBRA — Do They Conflict?
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Continuation Coverage, Group Health Insurance, Health Care
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Attorney and COBRA expert Paul Hamburger says the no-rescission rule under the health care reform law may override certain fundamental COBRA principles, and in this special report he encourages plan administrators to consider the implications of that possibilty in planning for COBRA administration.
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State Child Support Orders May Function as Valid QDROs
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Report
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Retirement Plans
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Child support enforcement orders issued by Departments of Child Support Services can be every bit as binding on retirement plan administrators as a domestic relations order issued during a divorce. In this special report, Attorney Natalie N.
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A Primer on the Form 5500 and Electronic Filing
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Report
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Benefits And Leave, Labor Government Agencies, Retirement Plans
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Starting with the 2009 benefit plan year (filings that are made in 2010), Form 5500 annual report filings must be submitted electronically. This special report provides comprehensive information on the Form 5500 and EFAST2, the new electronic filing system for the Form 5500.
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'Grandfathered' Plans Face Health Reform Law Changes to HIPAA in 2010
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Report
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Group Health Insurance, Health Care
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New restrictions on pre-existing condition exclusions, rescissions and dollar coverage limits start taking effect this September, even for group health plans "grand-fathered" by the health reform laws enacted in March.
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Sorting Out Your Fringe Benefits Before IRS Does
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Report
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Fringe Benefits, Labor Government Agencies
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As you may know, the IRS has launched a major initiative intended to study compliance in the areas of payroll taxes, independent contractor status and fringe benefits/executive compensation arrangements.
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FMLA, ADA, and Workers’ Comp Overlap
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Report
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ADA Amendments, FMLA, Workers' Compensation
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FMLA protections may overlap with other statutes and programs, including the Americans With Disabilities Act and workers' compensation laws, as employment law attorney Peter Susser explains. .
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