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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Fringe benefits - transit, discounts, other Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Tennessee Bank Makes It Easy for Its Employees Who Want to Adopt or Foster Children 2009 Employee Benefits Survey Report The Push for Time Off Work Gains in Many States New Study Suggests That Employees Value Their Total Benefits Offering More Than Cash GASB Issues Guidance on Multi-Employer OPEB Plans Recession Likely to Cause New Jersey Workers to Forgo Paid Leave Charleston, West Virginia, Still Allows Employees to Trade Sick Days for Health Insurance [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules That Unused Vacation Is Earned Wages, Despite Company Policy Otherwise [Official Guidance] IRS Information Letter on Benefits Provided to Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical Responders (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Employee Discounts on Products Made by Employer's Former Parent Company Are Subject to Income and FICA Tax [Guidance Overview] Colorado Expands Parental Leave (PDF) Employees Appreciate Lighter Schedule During Summer Months, New Survey Suggests [Guidance Overview] Proposed IRS Paradoxical Changes to Tax Rules for Employer-Provided Cell Phones [Guidance Overview] Clarification and Softening of IRS 'Crackdown' on Taxation of Business Cell Phones and PDAs (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Colorado Leave Requirements Scheduled to Accompany the Upcoming Fall School Year (PDF) IRS Says Cell Phone Law Obsolete Society for Human Resource Management Offers New Approach on Employee Leave SHRM, Democrats Tangle Over Paid Sick-Days Bill [Guidance Overview] IRS Request for Comments on Three Alternatives for Substantiating Business Use of Employer-Provided Cell Phones Last Week's House Committee Hearing on Family and Paid Sick Leave: Some Links [Guidance Overview] Comments Requested on Proposed Methods for Substantiating the Business Use of Employer-Provided Cell Phones (PDF) Rising Commuting Costs Prompts More Employer Help [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules Employers Must Pay Terminated Employees for Any Unused Vacation Time [Guidance Overview] Massachusetts Supreme Court Takes Tough Stance on Vacation Pay Milwaukee Paid Sick Leave Found Unconstitutional [Guidance Overview] The IRS Says, Unofficially, We want to Save Employers $$ on Cell Phone Taxes IRS Proposes Safe Harbor Rule for Taxing Work Cell Phone Use Hearing on the Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Act, and the Healthy Families Act [Opinion] Workplace Flexibility versus Unpaid Leave [Guidance Overview] Nevada Expands Parental Leave for Employees Attending School-Related Activities Businesses Dispute Need for Federal Mandated Sick Leave House Passes Paid Parental Leave Bill for Federal Employees [Guidance Overview] Colorado Employers Must Cope with New Employee Leave Mandate [Guidance Overview] Paid Parental Leave Passes House of Representatives Recent Modifications of Employee Benefits Data in the National Compensation Survey [Guidance Overview] Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Employee Access to 'Other Types of Benefits,' 1979-2008 [Guidance Overview] Summer Vacation Leave Policies Paid Sick Days Would Benefit Workers and Employers [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice 2009-48: Q&A on Entities Subject to Information Reporting Requirements for Employer-Owned Life Insurance (PDF) Legislation Introduced Mandating Paid Vacation Maximizing the Value of Benefits in a Recession Adding More Variable Elements to Total Compensation and Control Fixed Employee Costs (PDF) State of Washington to Delay Paid Parental Leave Implementation Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sick-Day Ordinance to Get Hearing Dismissal for Not Calling In Doesn't Violate FMLA Executive Summaries of Market Surveys on the U.S. Group Disability Market, U.S. Group Life Market, and Absence Management [Guidance Overview] IRS's Depreciation Deduction Limits and Inclusion Amounts for Automobiles Placed in Service in 2009 Oversight Committee Votes to Provide Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Benefits OPM Director Calls for Regulatory Reforms, Announces Work-Life Pilot Programs No Paid Leave for New Moms in the United States Employer's Calculation of Absenteeism Rate Violates FMLA, Court Says [Guidance Overview] Qualified Transportation Accounts Cannot Be Cashed Out Creative Ways to Increase Low-Income Employee Participation in 401(k) Plans [Opinion] We Need Legislation to Grant Americans at Least Seven Paid Sick Days a Year Employers Preparing for the H1N1 Virus: Benefits Preparedness Furloughs As an Option to Avoid Layoffs [Guidance Overview] Employee Benefits in an Excess Benefit Transaction Analysis [Guidance Overview] Furloughs and Reduced Hours: New Guidance on Cost-Cutting Strategies Other than Layoffs Fewer Employers Paying the Costs to Relocate an Employee and Are Cutting Their Relocation Budgets Generous Sick-Leave Cashouts for Retirees Cost San Jose, California, Millions 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