HR Regulation

The IRS announcements include a number of dollar amounts employers will need to know in order to administer their benefit plans for 2024, including the key dollar amounts for retirement plans, FSAs, HSAs and HDHPs.

West Hollywood's $19.08/hour wage – resulting from a law passed in 2021 mandating that wage increases be tied to the rate of inflation – is getting pushback from small business owners who want a moratorium on increases.

What do carriers see as the future in the absence management and leave management space?

"I think what employers would really like from the Legislature is more certainty. Not making laws that, to figure out what it means, you have to go to litigation," David A. Rapuano, a partner with Archer & Greiner, said. "To me, and to my clients, it is bad policy to create laws that cannot be figured out unless a court [is involved]."

Providing visible support for this area of care will help change workplace culture as it shows that breastfeeding is everyone's business, because breastfeeding benefits all of us.

Since Pres. Biden proposed rules to reinforce the Mental Health Parity law in July, there's been mixed reaction to the rules, however, employer groups and insurers point out one glaring issue – a shortage of mental health providers.