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Here’s what you should know to safely operate and maintain compliance for an electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility.

While HSAs have grown in notoriety over time, their benefits are still underutilized by many Americans who have them. Maximize your HSA investment potential with key FAQs answered.

By having an OSHA trainer update the chemical safety program of an industrial products manufacturer, the SRC team of NFP brought our client into OSHA compliance.

NFP's Benefits Compliance and team recently held a webinar in which they broke down the essentials of welfare benefit nondiscrimination testing.

On October 25, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published its October 2024 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter. The newsletter focuses on “social engineering,” which the OCR defines as “an attempt to trick someone into revealing information (e.g., a password) that can be used to attack systems or networks or taking an action (e.g., clicking a link, opening a document, etc.).” The OCR highlights four common types of social engineering. The first two types of social engineering are “phishing”

On November 8, 2024, the DOL issued Advisory Opinion FMLA2024-01-A, which addresses whether an employee can take leave under FMLA for treatment of a serious health condition provided as part of a clinical trial. As background, the inquirer is an organization involved in the treatment and cure of a known disease that uses clinical trials as part of its research goals towards finding a cure. In its research, the organization has found that one barrier to participation in their clinical trials is

On November 7, 2024, the IRS issued a reminder to employees with access to health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) through their employer on the advantages of using these arrangements to pay for medical expenses with tax-free dollars. For plan years beginning in 2025, health FSA and limited-purpose health FSA plan year limits will increase from $3,200 to $3,300 with the entire plan year election amount available on the first day of the plan year. The maximum carryover amount increases from

On November 5, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) affirmed a district court’s summary judgment ruling that a legal separation agreement (LSA) met the necessary requirements for a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) under ERISA. At issue was language in the LSA between Haili Kowalski and her now-deceased ex-husband (the decedent), which provided that the decedent “shall carry and maintain a policy of life insurance in the amount of $800,000” and

Effective retroactive to July 1, 2024, a new fertility preservation law will require standard fertility coverage for certain enrollees facing medical diagnoses or treatments for a disease that has a likely side effect of infertility, as established by reputable professional organizations, thus enabling them to preserve their fertility. This new requirement was passed as part of a budget law (St. 2024, c. 140, § 74). The law requires fully insured plans that provide coverage to eligible employee