Flights Aboard Company Jet Could Be ‘Taxable Transportation’
Employers that own corporate jets and pay a management company to fly them were not pleased by a recent IRS memo on tax treatment of such arrangements, and two private aviation trade associations have been working with IRS on relief….
ADA Compliance and Recruitment: Well-trained Managers Are the First Line of Defense
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilities or even asking questions that could influence an employment decision. Employers can avoid legal problems by training managers on what they can and can’t ask during the…
Immediate Reform Implementation Is Revenue-reporting and Tax-related (apart from SBC)
With the Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling affirming health reform, its legal requirements on employer health plans are a green light. Plans therefore continue to face important requirements this calendar year. Fortunately, they’re the same ones employers have known about…
Who’s in Control: 3rd Circuit Looks at FLSA’s Joint Employer Test
When a worker is employed by two or more separate employers, this normally presents no special problems under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But even where the employee works for an entirely separate employer, there may still be a question…
House Leader Schedules Vote to Overturn Health Reform
Expressing strong concerns about health reform’s negative impact on health costs and people’s ability to choose health care options, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., set a July 11 date for the House of Representatives to vote on legislation that…
Hope Dims for Transit Benefit Parity
Employers may not have to adjust their qualified transportation fringe benefit programs after all — at least not just yet. A legislative provision that would have affected QTFBs by boosting the mass transit exclusion to the same level as that…
House Vote Could Soon Determine Fate of Transit Parity
Employers that offer qualified transportation benefits should be aware that they may soon need to adjust their plans. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are setting the stage for the possible passage of a two-year federal highway funding law that could include…
Health-care Reform Ruling Means Employers Must Now Set Sights on Compliance
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on June 28 to uphold nearly all provisions of President Obama’s health-reform law removes any excuse for employers to drag their feet implementing reform-driven changes to their health plans. Uncertainty on whether the law…
Health Reform Law Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
The health care reform law was upheld today in the U.S. Supreme Court, which concluded that the controversial individual mandate is a tax and therefore falls into Congressional authority in the Taxing Clause of the Constitution. Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling…
Maine Voters Latest to Consider Marriage Referenda
Voters in Washington state and Maryland will weigh in on whether same-sex marriage should be legal in their states. Employers in these states — as well as those in adjacent states where same-sex marriage is not legal — would be…