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New Guidance: Emergency Personal Expense And Domestic Abuse Victim Distributions

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Of interest to 401(k) plan sponsors and administrators, the IRS recently issued Notice 2024-55, providing guidance on SECURE 2.0’s new exceptions—effective January 1, 2024—to the additional 10% tax on early qualified...more

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EntertainHR: Baby Reindeer and Employee Protections for Victims of Stalking or Domestic Violence

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Baby Reindeer on Netflix is the dark, fictionalized account of how one man’s stalker forever changed his life. It tells the story of a struggling London comedian, Donny Dunn, who meets a woman, named Martha, in a pub where he...more

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Oregon Employment Department Adopts Regulations to Clarify Administration of Paid Leave Oregon Benefits

On January 12, 2024, the Oregon Employment Department (OED) promulgated new regulations to clarify its procedures and criteria for implementing Paid Leave Oregon. As discussed further below, these regulations relate to...more

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ESOPs & Employee Benefits - SECURE 2.0 Provisions Taking Effect in 2024

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As many surely recall, the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 included nearly 100 provisions affecting retirement plans. While a number of the new rules became effective immediately, another portion is scheduled to take effect in 2024....more

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New Optional In-Service Withdrawal Right for Domestic Abuse Victims

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The next installment of our updates on SECURE 2.0 is on another new in-service withdrawal option. SECURE 2.0 allows plan sponsors of defined contribution plans to amend their plans to allow plan participants who are victims...more

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Diving Into SECURE 2.0: New and Potentially Easier Ways to Make Withdrawals from 401(k) Plans

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...Emergency Savings Accounts and Distributions - Brief overview. As reported previously, SECURE 2.0 permits but does not require plans to add emergency savings accounts beginning with the 2024 plan year, but only...more

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Hinshaw's 12 Days of California Labor & Employment Series – Day 9: Additional Leave Law Updates

In the spirit of the season—and keeping some semblance of normal—we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On this ninth day of the...more

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What ELSE is going on in Washington, DC? Legislative Update for Employers that Operate in the District of Columbia

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The District of Columbia Council has passed several pieces of legislation that impose significant obligations upon employers in the District of Columbia.  Below is a roundup of recent laws that have been enacted in the...more

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What You Need to Know About the Recent Amendments to New Jersey's Paid Family Leave Laws

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The state of New Jersey recently enacted major amendments to its family leave laws. These amendments have greatly expanded the benefits employees can receive, and therefore, the impact on New Jersey employers cannot be...more

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New Jersey Expands Family And SAFE Leave Protections And Benefits

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New Jersey’s governor just approved a significant expansion of the state’s leave laws, permitting employees job-protected leave for a variety of new reasons while expanding available state-provided, income-replacement...more

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Your Employee Is a Victim of Domestic Violence—What Should an Employer Do?

New Zealand parliament recently passed a law granting employees 10 days of extra paid leave each year for victims of domestic violence to change their living situations and not lose their jobs. According to some U.S....more

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Maryland's Paid Sick Leave Mandate Set to Take Effect This Month

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• The Maryland Healthy Working Families Act is scheduled to go into effect on Feb. 11, 2018, making Maryland the ninth state to mandate paid sick leave for private employers. • The Act requires that Maryland employers with...more

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NYC Council Passes Bill to Expand Coverage Under the Earned Sick Time Act

The New York City Council has passed a bill that would amend the NYC Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) to expand the covered reasons for leave to include situations where an employee or an employee’s family member is a victim of...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: California Employers Have New Rules to Follow — Effective Now

Each New Year typically brings a slew of new laws that affect employers – and 2017 is no exception. Many of these new laws took effect on Jan. 1, so employers must now be in compliance. If not, you must take immediate steps...more

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California Legislative Update: Which Bills Made the Final Cut?

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Although the California Legislature sent Governor Jerry Brown bills on bed bugs, powdered alcohol, and making denim the official state fabric, the laws enacted in 2016 affecting the state’s private-sector employers were...more

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California Legislative Update: It's Now Up To The Governor

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The California Legislature completed its substantive legislative work for the year in the very early morning hours of Thursday, September 1, 2016, with the usual frenetic, last-minute flurry of bill-passing, including some...more

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President Issues Executive Order Mandating Paid Sick Leave for Employees of Federal Contractors

As previously reported on this Blog, recent news reports indicated that President Obama would be issuing an Executive Order mandating paid sick leave for the employees of federal contractors. The President did just that on...more

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President Obama Issues Labor Day Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Provide Paid Sick Leave to Employees

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President Obama has issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave per year to their employees. The White House anticipates that the requirement could benefit more than...more

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Executive Order Requiring Paid Sick Leave In the Works

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We previously reported on other recently executed Executive Orders and it appears there is another in the works directed to government contractors. The new Executive Order circulating Washington will likely mandate paid sick...more

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Massachusetts Now Requires Employers to Provide Domestic Violence Leave

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Massachusetts has enacted a law requiring employers with 50 or more employees to grant employees “domestic violence leave.” The law, entitled “ An Act Relative to Domestic Violence,” was approved by Governor Deval Patrick on...more

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Act Now Advisory: Amendments to the District of Columbia's Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act of 2008

Since 2008, the District of Columbia's Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act ("ASSLA") has required D.C. employers to provide employees with paid leave (i) to care for themselves or their family members, and (ii) for work absences...more

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