Can We Match Our Employees’ Pretax HSA Contributions? Question: Under our company’s cafeteria plan, qualifying participants can make pretax salary reduction contributions to their Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Can our company make matching contributions based on a percentage of participants’ pretax

IRS Extends Due Dates for 2015 Forms 1094 and 1095 At the end of last year, the IRS extended the deadlines for the Affordable Care Act’s information reporting on Forms 1094 and 1095 for 2015. Specifically, Forms 1094-B and 1095-B

You know that Vision H.R. can help you handle your payroll and human resource management, but did you know they can actually reduce some of your employer liability? Under the Vision H.R. PEO (Professional Employer Organization) business model,

Every Word Counts when Crafting Your Employee Handbook A fundamental requirement of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is that employers must not “interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights” to organize into labor unions, collectively

Get Out There and Vote (If You Can) As you may have noticed, it’s election time again in America. People are wearing shirts for their favorite candidates, signs are outnumbering yard flamingos, and Facebook is a battlefield of comments and

 Good News in the New Year: IRS Extends ACA Filing Deadlines Employers and other organizations got some good news from the IRS for the start of the new year. The tax agency announced that it’s extending the due dates for filing

Tap the Brakes: Cadillac Tax Delayed, But Challenges Remain As 2015 was winding down, Congress pushed back the effective date of the “Cadillac tax” two years. The much-debated provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will now take effect on

  Do After-Hours Communications Qualify for Overtime Pay? Crucially, the plaintiffs charged, they “in fact received many such communications and performed work using their BlackBerry devices while off duty.” It wasn’t a case of seeking overtime pay just for being

If your employees regularly receive tips, it is important to comply with the withholding requirements and pay your company’s fair share of employment taxes. Expensive penalties can be assessed on both employers and employees if the tip reporting rules are not followed.

Give Your Employee Handbook a Facelift There are two ways to look at employee handbooks: 1. As a detailed document whose primary function is to set clear boundaries around employee behavior to provide legal support for any adverse action you might need