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In this Issue:
- HIRE Act Passed
- Healthcare Reform: Here's What You Need to Know for 2011
- What's New at HospitalityLawyer.com
- Industry Resources
- Dates Set for 2011 Hospitality Law Conference
HIRE Act Passed
by Atlantic Human Resource Advisors
On March 18, 2010, President Obama signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (the HIRE Act, also referred to as the “jobs bill”), which is intended to create new jobs and provide incentives to employers to hire the unemployed.
The HIRE Act provides tax credits to employers that hire persons who have been unemployed for at least 60 days. The tax credit is 6.2% of the wages paid to those individuals, effectively exempting the employer from having to pay its share of the Social Security tax on those wages through 2010. Thus, if an employer hires an unemployed person and pays that person $106,800 (the FICA wage cap) by the end of 2010, that employer could save $6,621. In addition, employers may claim a supplemental tax credit worth up to $1,000 at the end of a year of employment for each previously unemployed individual they hire. Note that employers generally may not take both the 6.2% tax credit and the $1,000 year-end tax credit for the same employee for the same year.
Healthcare Reform: Here's What You Need To Know For 2011
by Fisher & Phillips
There's a lot of information about the new health care reform acts on the Internet and in the news – much of it vague, some of it incorrect, and most of it overwhelming. The acts are very complex, of course, which is reflected in the reports. While several of the changes will be effective in 2011, most of the changes in the law won't take effect until 2014. The provisions with delayed effective dates will be clarified in future regulations and some of the provisions may be changed or repealed before they become effective. We'll report on those aspects of the law in future legal alerts. For now, here's what you need to know.
The new law applies fewer requirements to employer-sponsored health plans that were in existence on March 23, 2010 ("grandfathered plans") than it does to new health plans. Most of you reading this probably have grandfathered plans, so this Alert focuses on the changes that will soon have an impact on your health plan. Most of the changes described below apply to the plan year that begins on or after September 23, 2010 – six months after the date of enactment of the new law. If you maintain a calendar year plan, the changes become effective January 1, 2011. If your health plan year begins in October, November or December, the new rules apply to your plan year beginning in 2010.
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