Health FSA Uniform Coverage Rule Precludes Recoupment
In 1989, when the Internal Revenue Service wrote the first proposed regulations for health flexible spending accounts (“FSAs”), it came up with the requirement that health FSAs must exhibit the...
View ArticleEmployers Must Play or Pay Under Health-Care Reform
Health care reform is now law and many of the so called “insurance market reforms” go into effect for most employers on January 1, 2011. However, the portion of the law that will require certain large...
View ArticleIRS Delays Requirement to Report Cost of Group Health Coverage*
The provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the “ACA”) that require employers to report the aggregate cost of employer-sponsored health-care coverage on 2011 Forms W-2 will be optional and not...
View ArticleBenefit Limitations Remain Unchanged from 2009 to 2011
If you were hoping to be able to sock away more money into your 401(K) Plan in 2011 than you did in 2011, fuggedaboutit! The maximum elective deferrals for 2011 remains the same as it was for 2009 and...
View ArticleSame-Sex Civil Unions Recognized in Delaware
The Delaware House of Representatives voted yesterday in favor of Senate Bill 30, a bill that would create same-sex civil unions in Delaware, and recognize civil unions performed in other states. The...
View ArticleEEOC Wins Summary Judgment in Balt. Co. Pension Case
EEOC was awarded summary judgment by a federal court in Maryland last week. The court found that Baltimore County’s pension plan violates the ADEA in EEOC v. Baltimore County, Civil No. L-07-2500-BEL...
View ArticleIn the U.S. Unlawfully But Eligible for Workers’ Comp?
Is an employee who is in the country illegally a covered “employee” under the Workers’ Compensation laws? That was the question of first impression presented to the Delaware Superior Court in Del....
View ArticleThe Immediate Impact of the DOMA Ruling for Delaware Employers
Delaware began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on July 1, 2013, less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Delaware will no...
View ArticleDelaware Mini-COBRA Law Grows
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Timothy J. Snyder, Esq. Tim is the Chair of Young Conaway’s Tax, Trusts and Estates, and Employee Benefits Sections. Delaware’s Mini-COBRA law, enacted in May...
View ArticleMarriage Equality and the FMLA
The Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in United States v. Windsor created a lot of uncertainty in the area of federal employment benefits. Because the federal government’s definition of marriage as being...
View ArticlePaid Leave 2.0: Why Some Companies are Paying Their Workers to Quit
Have you ever started a job and realized that it was not what you thought it would be? Or have you ever hired someone who seemed like a perfect fit in the interview and then was a total dud when they...
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