Federal

The goal is to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of the conciliation process.

The IRS is raising the Health Plan PCORI Fee. The fee will be $2.66 per plan enrollee, up from $2.54 for the 2020 plan year.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) approved a final rule to update its conciliation program.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on Jan. 6 clarifying who is an independent contractor versus an employee.

A federal district court in California invalidated two new regulations that raised prevailing wages and eligibility criteria for foreign workers to receive H-1B visas.

President Trump has signed a bill to include an expansion of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Employers with health plan designs that predate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will find it easier to preserve the grandfathered status of their plans.

New Department of Labor (DOL) guidance eases fiduciary requirements for professionals who recommend investments to 401(k) plan participants.

A federal judge ordered the full reinstatement of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

Retirement plan fiduciaries will be barred from casting corporate-shareholder proxy votes in favor of social or political positions that don’t advance the financial interests of retirement plan participants.