by Ed Fensholt | September 5, 2018 | Health Reform
When I was a boy, I would sometimes seek permission from my father to do something that I was fairly sure (if not entirely certain) my mother would disapprove of. Dad would inevitably say, “OK by me, but ask your mother.” Dad’s reluctance to be the decider was...
by Ed Fensholt | August 24, 2018 | Paid Leave Laws, State and Local Issues
The current scourge of employers everywhere, particularly those with employees in multiple cities or states, is the proliferation of different paid leave laws. While there are many virtues to paid sick leave from employees’ perspective, the laws differ in their scope...
by Ed Fensholt | August 15, 2018 | Compliance Services, ERISA, Insurance Exchanges, State and Local Issues, Uncategorized
The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), an employee benefits advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Seattle, seeking to overturn a Seattle initiative compelling large hotels to provide generous and heavily subsidized health insurance to their...
by Ed Fensholt | January 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Employers with at least 20 persons performing work for compensation (or at least 50 persons, in the case of a nonprofit organization) and that have at least one employee who performs work in San Francisco are subject to the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance...
by Ed Fensholt | December 29, 2017 | Compliance Services, EEOC, Health Reform
IRS puts damper on prepaying 2018 property taxes, Court rescinds EEOC wellness regs…for 2019, Oregon may jump on “Let’s tax health insurance!” bandwagon We have a mixed bag for you in this last blog post of 2017: A pair of tax issues (one federal, one state), and a...
