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Last year, federal agencies issued relief postponing various employee benefit plan deadlines during a defined “Outbreak Period” to help plans, participants and service providers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This deadline relief expires on Feb. 28, 2021, in the absence of further guidance from federal agencies.
In the last few years, members of Generation Z—those born between 1995 and 2010—have begun to enter the workforce. They are remarkably different than their millennial predecessors and their arrival should force businesses to change their marketing strategies and rethink recruitment and retention techniques.
Employees who take off work for military duty may be entitled to paid leave from their employers, according to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. The Feb. 3, 2021, opinion in White v. United Airlines, Inc. held that the Uniformed Services Employee and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) requires employers to provide paid military leave to the same extent they provide paid leave for other absences, such as jury duty and sick leave. The opinion is the first circuit court ruling on the issue.
