Compensation & Benefits

IRS releases 2019 inflation adjustments for HDHP/HSAs

08/14/2018

The IRS has announced the 2019 inflation-adjusted figures for high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts.

Navigating Minnesota’s 3 paid sick and safe time laws

08/08/2018

Duluth recently became the third Minnesota city to enact a paid sick and safe time ordinance, following the lead of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The ordinance differs in key ways from its Twin Cities cousins’.

Workers’ comp claims get expensive when more than one employer is involved

08/08/2018

The Minnesota Supreme Court has clarified the conditions under which an attorney representing an injured worker can obtain additional attorneys’ fees.

New tip rules: Prepare for a deep dive into the tip pool

08/06/2018

Employers have long been allowed to pay tipped employees less than the usual minimum wage. In some industries, tips have traditionally been pooled, so “back-of-the-house” staff can share in customers’ generosity. But the informality of tipping means it is a surprisingly complicated wage-and-hour issue.

Ensure employees know of retirement plan rollover rules change

08/06/2018

As a result of a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the rollover distribution rules are now more relaxed for rollovers of defaulted loans resulting from plan terminations or a participant’s failure to repay a loan upon severance from employment.

Snapshot: Salary budgets inch upward

07/31/2018

U.S. employers are expected to budget for pay raises averaging 3.2% in 2019.

No unemployment for man who wanted to beat up boss

07/31/2018

A Pennsylvania judge has refused to grant unemployment benefits to a former employee who was fired for challenging his supervisor to a fist fight in the parking lot after work.

Time clock rounding case offers lessons on compensable time

07/30/2018

If you use a rounding system, take care to ensure that it is fair and neutral, and that, on average, the amount of employee time that is deducted is the same or less than the amount added to time records as time worked.

Men win big in EEOC parental leave settlement

07/26/2018

Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder has agreed to pay $1,100,000 to men who the EEOC said were harmed by discriminatory parental leave policies.

By the numbers: Student loan benefits

07/24/2018

More than three-fourths of young people say they would be more likely to accept a job offer from an employer that offers student loan repayment as an employee benefit, according to a recent report by CommonBond, a loan refinancing company.