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Federal Regulations implementing section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as posted by the U.S. Government Printing Office. 20 C.F.R. Part 656, U.S. Code authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.

75 Federal Register 28368 (May 20, 2010); Effective Date June 21, 2010

The OCIIO is responsible for ensuring compliance with the new insurance market rules, such as the prohibitions on rescissions and on pre-existing condition exclusions for children that take effect this year. It will oversee the new medical loss ratio rules and will assist states in reviewing insurance rates. It will provide guidance and oversight for the state-based insurance exchanges.

It is critical that businesses correctly determine whether the individuals providing services are employees or independent contractors. Generally, a company must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment tax on wages paid to an employee. Companies do not generally have to withhold or pay any taxes on payments to independent contractors.

75 Federal Register 27927 (May 19, 2010)

Grandfathered health plans will be able to make routine changes to their policies and maintain their status.  These routine changes include cost adjustments to keep pace with medical inflation, adding new benefits, making modest adjustments to existing benefits, voluntarily adopting new consumer protections under the new law, or making changes to comply with State or other Federal laws.&nb

Summary: Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides that time spent “changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday” is excluded from compensable time under the FLSA if the time is excluded from compensable time pursuant to “the express terms or by custom or practice” under a collective bargaining agreement. 29 U.S.C. § 203(o).

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety event

Summary: Most Americans with private group health insurance are covered through an employer, coverage that is generally provided to active employees and their families. A change in an individual’s work or family status can result in loss of coverage.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans.

75 Federal Register 37188 (June 28, 2010); 26 CFR Parts and 602, 29 CFR Part 2590, 45 CFR Parts 144, 146, and 147; Effective Date: August 27, 2010

Summary: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, P.L. 111-148, March 23, 2010) is a recent and particularly noteworthy example of congressional delegation of rulemaking authority to federal agencies. This report identifies more than 40 provisions in PPACA (as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, P.L.

Section 409A of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 mandates specific requirements for nonqualified deferred compensation plans in order for recipients of the deferred compensation to avoid the immediate inclusion in income of vested benefits, the imposition of a 20 percent penalty, and an interest charge.

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel; Minich, Dennis A.; July 5, 2010

This white paper discusses: - The Role of the Chief Compliance Officer: Integrating Employment and Labor Law Compliance into the Corporate Compliance Initiative and Learning the New Language of Compliance - A World Class Standard for Crisis Management in the Workplace: Implementing the American National Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs (NFPA 1600)

Introduction: On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law. Dodd-Frank eliminates a number of defenses employers have used to defeat whistleblower claims under Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

SUMMARY: This document contains an interim final regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) requiring that certain service providers to employee pension benefit plans disclose information to assist plan fiduciaries in assessing the reasonableness of contracts or arrangements, including the reasonableness of the service providers’ compensation and pot

Task Force Report on "Best" Equal Employment Opportunity Policies, Programs, and Practices in the Private Sector." (December 1997) The Task Force set out to look at noteworthy business practices by which employers are complying with their EEO obligations and diversity objectives.

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced in the Federal Register on April 15th, 2009 that the new iCERT system is now available for use by employers filing Form 9035E (LCA) as required for submission of H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 petitions. Both the permanent labor certification program (PERM) and H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 nonimmigrant visa programs provides employers with the option to electronically file