Human resource workers may have little time to ease into the new year as they prepare for legal changes that erase some deferred-compensation loopholes and clarify COBRA notification. Last spring, the ...

Danielle Capilla is the vice president of compliance and employee benefits at Alera Group. Views are author's own. Since its passage in 1985, COBRA has allowed qualified individuals who lose their ...

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A court ruled that employer COBRA notices do not need to be in writing, however brokers should still advise their clients to provide written notices to cover all their bases in satisfying COBRA notice ...

As your workforce grows, it becomes even more important to know your legal obligations to your employees. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, known as COBRA, is a federal law that ...

The issue of COBRA notices and penalties can create problems when considering who is entitled to the notice and when they have to be issued. When claims are brought for alleged violations of the ...

(CN) - A former Wal-Mart employee claims in a federal lawsuit that the retail giant failed to properly notify its fired workers of their rights to continued health insurance coverage. In a class ...

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), first enacted in 1985 and revised in 1999, is a federal law that requires most employers to provide continuing health insurance coverage to ...