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By: Drema Foster, PAFM On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s final regulation increasing the salary threshold for the “white collar” overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on a nationwide basis. The court held that each of the three…
By: Drema Foster, PAFM The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Final Rule on April 23, 2024, to increase the minimum salary requirements for the “white collar” exemptions (executive, administrative, and professional) from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Final Rule sharply increases the minimum…
If you have a tax-saving flexible spending account (FSA) with your employer to help pay for health or dependent care expenses, there’s an important date coming up. You may have to use the money in the account by year-end or you’ll lose it (unless your employer has a grace period). As the end of 2023…
By: Drema Foster, PAFM As we’re closing in on 2024, employers must be aware of the most recent changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting. Since 2015, employers have been able to file their Forms 1094-C and 1095-C by paper rather than electronically if they were filing less than 250 returns. However, beginning in 2024,…
By: Drema Foster, PAFM One of the key provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act passed at the end of 2022 included a requirement that those earning over $145,000 in 2023 would have to make their 401(k) Catch-Up contributions as Roth (on an after-tax basis) beginning January 1, 2024. Those 50 years and older can contribute…
By: Drema Foster, PAFM United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 21, 2023, a new Form I-9—which has been streamlined and shortened—that employers should use beginning August 1, 2023. The new form can be found here: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9.pdf Employers may continue to use the older Form I-9 (Rev. 10/21/19) through October 31, 2023.…
If you own a successful small business with no employees, you might be ready to set up a retirement plan. Now a 401(k) might seem way out of your reach — only bigger companies can manage one of those, right? Not necessarily. Two ways to contribute With a solo 401(k), the self-employed can make large annual deductible contributions to…
After the Great Resignation, when more US workers quit their jobs than ever, over 70% of 2,000 workers who had resigned told a Harris poll that it was harder to find a good job than they had expected. More than a third of those who had found a new job said they regretted quitting, their…
As part of the federal omnibus spending bill, President Joe Biden recently signed into law the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act), expanding federal protections for both pregnant and nursing workers. Pregnant Workers Fairness Act The PWFA creates a legal obligation for employers to…
During the final week of December 2022, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 which included, among other provisions affecting employers, a temporary telehealth services safe harbor for High Deductible Health Plans first-dollar coverage without violating Health Savings Account contribution rules. This CAA 2023 HSA relief is an extension of the CARES Act and CAA 2022 provisions, which provided…
Drema K. Foster
Drema Foster is the Chief Operating Officer and Human Resources Director for Suttle & Stalnaker, PLLC. Drema has been with S&S for 8 years and has over 20 years’ experience in the Human Resources field. Drema provides human resource-related consulting services to our clients and handles the internal HR/ Administration functions for the firm.