Lori Welty, Esq., Absence Management Senior Compliance Attorney
When new leave legislation goes into effect, insurance carriers need agile absence management solutions in order to adapt quickly. In this blog, you’ll learn key details on the recently passed New Mexico Healthy Workplaces Act and how FINEOS is helping carriers remain in compliance. On April 8, Governor Grisham of New Mexico signed the House Bill 20, the Healthy Workplaces Act, bringing paid sick leave to the state. New Mexico joins 15 ...
This blog explores how the design of claims management systems and absence management software can impact compliance, and how to ensure your systems aren’t a liability.
Lori Welty, Esq., Absence Management Senior Compliance Attorney
On January 15, the 9th Circuit issued a decision in Scalia v. Alaska, 2021 U.S. App. Lexis 1152 (9th Cir. 2021), reversing course on earlier court decisions addressing the correct method for deducting full weeks of leave for rotational employees. The new decision establishes that employers can use an employers’ definition of workweek, instead of one applicable to an individual employee, in deducting full weeks of FMLA leave. The result is ...
Megan G. Holstein, Esq., SVP Absence and Claims Product
As an employer, whether producing widgets, serving food to the public, or running a government entity, the organization relies on employees to come to work (whether physically or virtually) as scheduled. In the absence management industry, a niche market that solely exists because employees might and do miss work, managing attendance gets complex. A recent court case highlights just one small area of the absence ...
Imagine this: your employer uses an outdated technology for payroll. Because of this, your paycheck is a different amount each week. Assuming you’re a salaried employee, can you imagine accessing your bank balance and scanning your recent transactions each week to confirm if the amount deposited is close enough to what you were expecting? If it’s not close enough, you have to call your bank, employer and potentially another third party to ...
Megan G. Holstein, Esq., SVP Absence and Claims Product
This month as President Biden took office, he announced a proposed stimulus plan which would include reviving federal paid leave. Last April, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) created a temporary federal paid leave requirement for many employers that expired on December 31, 2020. While Congress passed a second stimulus bill during the last days of December 2020, it did not extend the FFCRA’s paid leave mandates; … Read More
Lori Welty, Esq., Absence Management Senior Compliance Attorney
Late December 2020, Massachusetts finalized two Emergency Regulations relating to its Paid Family and Medical Leave program. The Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) also issued formal Guidance on Intermittent Leave and Reduced Leave Schedules. The new regulations: update several definitions for personal care attendants and family childcare providers, and incorporate those into the … Read More
Lori Welty, Esq., Absence Management Senior Compliance Attorney
As 2020 wraps up, the leave of absence community waited with baited breath to see if Congress would extend the mandatory paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), implemented last March and set to expire December 31, 2020. The FFCRA had expanded the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) via … Read More
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