Get ready for another rise in per-employee costs for employer-sponsored health insurance. It’s predicted that after a 6.3% rise in 2021, 2022 will experience an increase of 4.4%, according to Mercer’s 2021 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans. For the most part, the reason for the continued climb is people are still catching up on […]
The vaccine mandate has raised a lot of questions. Monday’s post addressed two important ones: What should you be doing now? And what constitutes 100 plus employees? But that only skimmed the surface. Lawyers Danielle Capilla, VP of compliance, employee benefits for Alera Group, and Stacy Barrow, partner at Marathas Barrow Weatherhead and Lent LLP, […]
The Dec. 5, 2021 deadline for OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) vaccine mandate has come and gone. So, what should employers be doing? “Keep marching forward and prepare as if the mandate will go into effect,” said Danielle Capilla, VP of compliance, employee benefits for Alera Group, in the webinar, Federal Vaccine Mandate Legal Challenges. […]
A new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, has been detected, and is very likely to start cropping up in the United States. In order to get on top of the spread, the CDC has issued an update on Omicron. It’s important for employers to familiarize themselves with the new variant in order to protect the workplace more […]
Here’s another Emergency Temporary Standard vaccine mandate update and advice on what your options are. Back on Wednesday, Nov. 17th, we informed you on who the winner of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s lottery was – the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. And how it would hear the consolidated litigation over the Biden administration’s […]
On Monday we told you about a multi-circuit lottery that would consolidate all the lawsuits over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The winner of the lottery would hear the consolidated litigation. Well, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation conducted the lottery, and the winner is … Before we get to the winner, the good news […]
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an additional order on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. It prohibits OSHA from moving forward with its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) of the vaccine mandate. On Nov. 6, 2021, the court agreed to stay the mandate pending briefing and expedited judicial review. The court considered four factors in its […]
The IRS just announced the cap for health flexible spending accounts (health FSAs) for 2022. The good news: It increased. The bad news: For many employers it may be too late for their employees to take advantage of the increase. But before we get into that, here’s what the increase is. Flexible spending account cap […]
On Nov. 4, 2021, the DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the release of its emergency temporary standard to protect workers from coronavirus. But less than two days later a federal appeals court put a temporary halt on it. The emergency temporary standard was supposed to become effective on Nov. 5, 2021, when […]
