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Back to the Drawing Board: Employer Wellness Program Uncertainty in Light of AARP v. EEOC

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

Despite a rapidly growing and changing compliance landscape, employers have continued to offer wellness programs in an effort to control rising health-care costs and improve employees’ overall health and productivity. In 2016, the Equal Employment...

Legal Issues Business Leaders Need to Know in 2018

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

In recent years, the CFPB has struck fear into the C-suites of financial services companies. The agency was extraordinarily active in rulemaking that addresses every aspect of lending, prepaid cards and arbitration clauses in consumer contracts....

FMLA Tax Credit Available For Some Employers Who Offer Paid Leave

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

Although the federal Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not require employers to provide paid leave, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed late last year by President Trump, provides a tax credit incentive beginning this year for employers who...

U.S. Department Of Labor Endorses More Flexible Unpaid Intern Test

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

Q. Our company wants to establish an internship program and host student interns to work alongside our employees. Do we need to pay the interns? A. Possibly. Over the past few years, courts and the Department of Labor (“DOL”) have carefully...

Eighth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Claim Against Department Of Health & Human Services Under ACA Transitional Reinsurance Program For Lack Of Subject Matter Jurisdiction

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

Seeking reimbursement of fees paid, allegedly by mistake, under the transitional reinsurance program in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), the trustees of the Twin City Pipe Trades Welfare Fund’s sued the U.S. Department of...

CMS Gives States Options for Complying with Cures Act Mandate to Cap Medicaid DME Rates

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

As previously reported, the 21st Century Cures Act prohibits federal financial participation (FFP) payments to the states for certain Medicaid durable medical equipment (DME) expenditures that exceed what Medicare would have paid for such items,...

AML Regulation and Compliance Trends

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

Regulators and enforcement agencies continue to pursue aggressive regulations and requirements for financial institutions (a very broad definition under Title 31 of the US Code and regulations). The new administration does not show any signs of...

International Tax Reform Is Here

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law on December 22, 2017, represents the biggest change to U.S. tax law since adoption of the 1986 Code. In addition to rate cuts and various individual and corporate reforms, the Act introduces several major...

USCIS to Resume Accepting Applications to Renew DACA

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

On January 13, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On September 5,...

Labor Department Adopts ‘Primary Beneficiary’ Test For Determining Employee Status Of Interns, Students

By EsqSocial Corporation 17/01/18

The Department of Labor has decided to align its analysis under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of the intern-vs.-employee determination with that of the majority of federal appellate courts to have addressed the issue, abandoning the stricter...

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