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18 Dec Employment Practices Liability Trends to Watch in 2021

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As an employer, you care about making your workforce feel valued and managing your organization successfully.

However, even if you do everything you can to ensure smooth relationships with your staff, employment practices liability (EPL) risks remain. That’s why it’s crucial for your organization to have EPL coverage. Such a policy can offer protection for claims that result from employees alleging various employment-related issues—such as discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination.

18 Dec EPA Revises Application Exclusion Zone Requirements

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On Oct. 30, 2020, a new final rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard’s application exclusion zone (AEZ) requirements.

The final rule becomes effective Dec. 29, 2020.

18 Dec Proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022

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On Dec. 4, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022.

Proposed standards in the rule include:

18 Dec Final Rule Provides Greater Flexibility for Grandfathered Plans

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On Dec. 11, 2020, the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury (Departments) announced a final rule that provides greater flexibility for grandfathered plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

A grandfathered plan is a group health plan or health insurance coverage that was in existence on March 23, 2010 (the date the ACA was passed), that has not made certain prohibited changes to lose its grandfather status. Grandfathered plans are exempt from certain ACA requirements.

18 Dec IRS Adds, Updates FAQs on FFCRA Tax Credits

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The IRS has added or updated more than 80 answers to questions in its series of FAQs on “COVID-19-Related Tax Credits for Required Paid Leave Provided by Small and Midsize Businesses.”

The changes affect questions in all 13 of the subtopics covered by the FAQs.

Refundable tax credits are available to businesses for employee paid leave taken under the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), enacted in March 2020 and effective through Dec. 31, 2020.

16 Dec Trends At A Glance: Employee Contributions by Industry

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Many experts expected employers to continue to inch further and further away from the typical 70/30 employer/employee cost split, but that trend seems to have slowed.

As the Coronovirus pandemic sweeps the nation in 2020, a crucial pillar supporting the U.S. workforce is employer-sponsored healthcare. While we wait to see how postponed preventive care and delayed elective surgeries will affect the health of the nation's workforce, and how the total costs of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccinations will be financed, we are already leveraging our local knowledge, as well as the data from this survey to recommend renewal strategies for 2021.