While most plan sponsors understand that their plans must offer continuation coverage under COBRA for their medical benefits, many administrators find themselves on less solid ground when it comes to COBRA coverage and health flexible spending accounts (health FSAs). If an employee elects to contribute to a health FSA and terminates ...
As mentioned in our prior post, numerous benefit plan-related deadlines were extended by the DOL when it declared a National Emergency due to COVID-19 in March, 2020. By law, the National Emergency continues until: (1) emergency is not continued by the president; (2) the president terminates it; or (3) a joint resolution of Congress terminates ...
Lyndsey Barnett and Cassidy Zang*
McDonald’s recently notified a Florida federal court that a class-wide settlement was reached and ready for approval in the COBRA suit brought against them. This settlement is the result of an action filed in December 2020 by a former employee who alleged that the corporation was sending former employees ...