The U.S. Department of Labor has initially committed up to $40 million in Disaster Dislocated Worker Grant funding to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist in disaster response efforts after Hurricane Irma. Check the hurricane recovery page for updates on how to apply for disaster unemployment assistance
mployers beware of potential National Labor Relations Act unfair labor practices risks that may arise from their adoption or enforcement of overly broad or restrictive workplace recording, acceptable use, workplace conduct, commitment-to-integrity or other policies that might be construed to prohibit or deter employees from exercising protected organization or other collective bargaining rights under the NLRA in light of the Fifth Circuit’s recent T-Mobile decision.
Medical clinic at Houston convention center, other HHS Hurricane Harvey relief
IRS updates numbers to calculate Obamacare individual shared responsibility penalty for not having health coverage.
Model Amendment for Bifurcated Distributions fro DB Plans out
USNews & World Report released its 2017-18 hospital rankings. Understanding its relevance and meanings requires an understanding of the consistency of its underlying methodology and data to the needs of the potential patient or other user.
Source: Use Lessons Of Past Mistakes or Injustice To Build Better Future
U.S. employers recruiting or employing workers with high demand skills or experience in the U.S. labor market should reevaluate existing employee retention and recruiting packages and policies and intellectual property safeguards to deal with the increasingly competitive job market reflected in June, 2017 employment data and trends reflected in U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) […]
Proposed immigration reform requires preference for English-speaking, skilled workers.
Employers and employee benefit plan fiduciaries and administrators should consider sharing the free IRS Withholding Calculator resource offered in English, Spanish, and ASL formats with workers in annual employee benefit enrollment packages, new hire paperwork, bonus announcement and other wage related materials and other employee communications to help workers better understand and manage the tax and other effects of their annual employee benefit elections on their take-home pay.
