Compliance

Together, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the PUMP Act place new requirements on employers with 15 or more employees to accommodate workers, including many exempt employees.

Effective communication and training can help employees and companies navigate these hard times and emerge with a strong culture.

The new state transparency laws generally fail to account for one form of compensation ripe for bias - bonuses, which in some industries, such as finance and insurance, are one of the biggest parts of total compensation.

Despite differing objectives, increasing transparency requires stakeholders to work together for common good, according to a panel discussion at the recent Self-Insurance Institute of America's (SIIA) Price Transparency Forum in Kansas City.

The suit accuses the father and son of failing to disclose to over 100 investors that they had been terminated from advisory firm Waddell & Reed and were impersonating certain clients to make securities transactions.

We recently caught up with Nick Karls, director of compliance at Holmes Murphy and Associates, for a wide-ranging conversation on virtual care trends, compliance updates, and the key roles that benefits advisors will play in guiding employers in 2023 and beyond.

BetterHealth, an online therapy company, did not admit wrongdoing in their settlement. "This industry-standard practice is routinely used by some of the largest health providers," the company said in a statement.

The DOJ alleges that the chairman and former CEO of telehealth provider Ontrak dumped more than $20 million in company stock based on inside knowledge that it was about to lose a contract with Cigna, its largest customer.