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Compensation & Benefits

U.S. Women’s Soccer: Equal Pay for better play

04/11/2016
The World Champion U.S. Women’s Soccer Team filed an EEOC complaint March 31 demanding to be paid the same as members of the U.S. Men’s National Team and drawing mainstream attention to the Equal Pay Act.

San Francisco mandates 6 weeks of paid parental leave

04/08/2016

San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to require employers to provide six weeks of paid leave to new parents.

Suit advances alleging Dave & Buster’s dodged ACA

04/08/2016
A big class-action lawsuit against the Dave & Buster’s restaurant chain has cleared an initial hurdle in federal court.

EEOC to collect wage data on the EEO-1

04/08/2016
Payroll administrators, get ready to supply wage and hour data and W-2 data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Form EEO-1.

American workers restless over mix of wages, benefits

04/08/2016
American workers want more cash from their employers, and they would be willing to accept fewer benefits in exchange, according to a new survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Snapshot: Why we seek out training

04/08/2016
Adults are increasingly interested in more than the status quo

Supreme Court turns down Walmart class-action case

04/06/2016
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 4 declined to hear an appeal of a class-action lawsuit alleging that Walmart underpaid almost 200,000 Pennsylvania employees between 1998 and 2006.

ACA’s third affordability safe harbor set for 2016

04/06/2016

If you use the Affordable Care Act’s third affordability safe harbor, group health benefits are affordable if employees’ monthly premiums for self-only coverage for the lowest cost plan don’t exceed 9.66% of the federal poverty line divided by 12.

California, New York set $15 minimum wage

04/05/2016
Governors of California and New York both sign legislation Monday mandating the wage hikes.

Payroll news you can use

04/04/2016

Here are digests of some recently released official announcements from the IRS.