The 2012 Multistate Guide to Benefits Law is the single, easy-to-use resource that is absolutely essential for staying in compliance with the increasingly complex regulatory framework of state benefits law. Only the 2012 Multistate Guide to Benefits Law's unique chart format enables you to quickly locate information concerning one state's treatment of a particular issue, or compare the treatment required by several states - all on the same chart! The 2012 Edition includes updated text and charts that reflect changes in the law since the previous edition, including: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which continues to be the focus of most benefits professionals Court challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) A new Web Tool offered by the Department of Health and Human Services on the www.HealthCare.gov website assists small employers and individual consumers in searching for health coverage options in their geographic regions The tables addressing state family and medical leave laws, as well as the table addressing state leave laws for blood, bone marrow, and organ donation, have been thoroughly revised and updated An increasing number of states require employers (by statute or regulation) to provide employees who are nursing mothers with uncompensated break time to breastfeed their infants or to express breast milk Updates to legal issues relating to employee privacy, including a discussion of cases stating that employers may fire employees who fail drug tests but are legally using medical marijuana Coverage of changes to state laws relating to insurance requirements New state maximum weekly benefit payments for total disability under state workers' compensation laws for 46
- ISBN10 0735509190
- ISBN13 9780735509191
- Publish Date 1 September 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 928
- Language English