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FCE Benefits announces partnership with J&M Financial Services
This partnership will allow FCE clients the ability to build strategic alliances with minority-owned business enterprises, women-owned business enterprises and disabled veteran-owned businesses as part of their overall diversity and corporate social responsibility strategy.
June 2013
ACA Implementation to Continue
The re-election of President Barack Obama was the last potential obstacle that could have prevented the implementation of the federal health care reform law...
Benefits Insights, Winter 2013
Michigan Becomes Right-to-Work State
In December, Michigan enacted legislation making it the 24th right-to-work (RTW) state in the nation.
Benefits Insights, Winter 2013
FCE Health Care Reform and Benefit Product Offerings
The ACA has withstood legal challenges and as we begin 2013 new taxes and tax reporting requirements will begin.
Benefits Insights, Winter 2013
Agreement Averts "Fiscal Cliff"
A final flurry of negotiations at the end of 2012 resulted in an agreement to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff”...
Benefits Insights, Winter 2013
USDOL Issues WARN Act Guidance
In the event of budget sequestration in 2013, employers must have a contingency plan in place to decrease their workforce on short notice.
Benefits Insights, Fall 2012
OMB Takes Steps to Accelerate Payments to Small Business Subcontractors
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) expanded on existing efforts to further expedite payments to federal contractors on July 11, 2012.
Benefits Insights, Fall 2012
Supreme Court Affordable Care Act Decision
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision that the federal health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act ("Act") was, for the most part, constitutional.
Benefits Insights, Summer 2012
Update on Generic Drugs
In the near future a large number of patents on brand name medications will expire, which will increase access to generic versions of the same medication that could cost up to 80 percent less.
Benefits Insights, Summer 2012
Supreme Court Considers Validity of Affordable Care Act
During March 26-28, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
Benefits Insights, Spring 2012
USDOL Proposed Rule to Expand FMLA Military Benefits
On January 30th, 2012 the US Department of Labor (USDOL) released a proposed rule that would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Benefits Insights, Spring 2012
Critical Incident Stress Management Services
A critical incident in the workplace is a sudden, traumatic event that is overwhelming, emotionally charged and often dangerous.
Benefits Insights, Winter 2012
Debt Ceiling: Committee’s Failure Triggers Sequestration
In August 2011 Congress passed the Budget Control Act (BCA) to resolve the impasse over the need to increase the debt ceiling.
Benefits Insights, Winter 2012
OFCCP Proposes a 7% Hiring Goal of Disabled Employees
The US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on December 9, 2011.
Benefits Insights, Winter 2012
NLRB Proposes to Amend Rules Concerning Union Election Procedures
On June 22, 2011 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify existing rules and regulations governing procedures in union representation cases.
Benefits Insights, Summer 2011
New Magellan EAP Member Health and Wellness Website
Employees in the Magellan EAP have access to a new, easy and convenient way to get started down the road to a lifetime of health and vitality.
Benefits Insights, Summer 2011
Anticipated Changes to Strengthen Employment Protections for Veterans
In April, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to strengthen employment protections for Veterans...
Benefits Insights, Summer 2011