HIPAA compliance for employers is a complicated and nuanced topic. No employer group is the same when it comes to supplying health benefits to their employees. Smaller employers (fewer than 50 lives) usually outsource the day-to-day administrative tasks to...
Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation placing in law the test for determining when a worker is an independent contract as outlined in a California Supreme Court decision last year. AB 5 codifies the “ABC” test adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex...
Employee counts are used to determine what laws, rules, fees and penalties apply to a health plan and/or the employer sponsor. The methods for counting employees are as varied as the laws that affect them. Counting employees can leave you feeling cross-eyed. With the...
The local minimum wage ordinance trend continues to heat up, again, as Petaluma and Sonoma, two Bay Area cities, approved to accelerate the minimum wage rates currently set forth in California’s minimum wage schedule, by adopting their own local minimum...
On August 30, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed clean-up legislation (S.B. 778) clarifying the state’s sexual harassment prevention training and education law, particularly when mandatory training must be completed. Why a Clean-Up Bill? California’s...
The federal government’s Form I-9, used by HR departments across the country to verify workers’ employment eligibility, is expiring at the end of the month. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is working on updating the form, but it may...
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