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Question: What are the immediate ramifications of the finalized rule — for employers, in general, and for total rewards (TR) professionals, in particular?

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For example, employer of record (EOR) solutions help simplify the path for startups to hire and expand globally by taking on the responsibility of employment compliance, covering everything from payroll and benefits to local employment laws, administration and tax filings.

Thus, employers should be very wary in not offering benefits that more than 90% of other employers do.

After all, the First and Fifth Amendment analyses in this case merge in several ways, because laws that ‘interfere with the right of free speech or of association’ must pass a ‘stringent vagueness test’ for such a law to give citizens sufficient notice of ‘what is prohibited, so that [they] may act accordingly’ and for such a law to provide sufficiently ‘explicit standards’ to avoid “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”

Making Sense of Contractor Employment Expanding contractor hiring to a global scale introduces increased complexity in worker classification — with labor laws, taxation and compliance requirements varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

;The National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators requested a full exemption from the rule in its letter, noting that “governmental plans encounter complexities in local law enabling requirements, payroll systems, and administration that most private sector employers do not face …”;The ERISA Industry Committee in its comment letter requested a good-faith compliance standard for the proposal.

Court Rules PTO Is Not Part of Employees’ Salary As reported by Reuters , paid time off that employees accumulate is not part of their salary under U.S. wage law, meaning employers can take away paid leave when salaried employees do not meet productivity quotas, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

With plans to fill open board seats with Republicans, Trump aims to flip the agency to be more employer friendly.

The legal team and HR should determine if federal or international privacy laws (e.g., the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR], the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) or state laws (e.g., the California Consumer Privacy Act [CCPA]) have been violated.