Publications

As many covered employers recall, their duties under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA), and the Emergency Family Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA) ended on December 31, 2020.  Those laws obligated them to provide emergency paid sick leave and paid EFMLEA leave […]

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) creates a 100% COBRA premium subsidy for certain “assistance eligible individuals” beginning April 1, 2021, through September 30, 2021.  For more information about the COBRA premium subsidy, click here. A number of questions about the subsidy remain unanswered, including the following – What […]

In this episode of Baird Holm Banter, Morgan Kreiser is back to discuss the employee benefits-related provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act, including the 100% COBRA premium subsidies and increased dependent care flexible spending account benefits. Listen here.

Blackbaud is a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) provider for more than 45,000 nonprofit organizations, foundations, universities, and health care providers worldwide.  Last year Blackbaud suffered a data breach and a subset of its databases were stolen. [1]  The data subset contained client information used for fundraisings, marketing, financial management, […]

Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) rescinded a Trump-era statement of policy that sought to define an “abusive” act or practice for purposes of the Dodd-Frank Act’s UDAAP prohibition. The now rescinded policy statement defined an “abusive” act or practice as one in which the harm to […]