ERIC’s testimony focused on the expansive paid leave provided by many employers, particularly by large, multistate employers, to millions of workers across the country through voluntary paid leave plans.
Miscellaneous Archives:
ERIC Continues to Work with Lawmakers to Address Mental Health & Expand Telehealth Access
ERIC participated in two health care-related Congressional hearings today. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) hearing examined the COVID-19 response and lessons learned to address mental health and substance use disorders.
Employers Want to Keep Expanded Benefits for Employees but Need Guidance from Agencies
ERIC is urging the DOL, HHS, and Treasury, as well as the IRS and PBGC, to support employees and grow the post-pandemic economy.
ERIC Works with Lawmakers to Allow Tennessee to Join Telehealth Compact
Today, ERIC urged Tennessee lawmakers to pass HB 455, allowing the state to join Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT). This issue is important to ERIC as many of our members have employees in Tennessee.
Employers Work to Expand Care for Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders
ERIC today testified before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at a hearing titled “Meeting the Moment: Improving Access to Behavioral and Mental Health Care.”
ERIC Testifying in Education and Labor Hearing on Behavioral and Mental Health
James Gelfand will be a witness for the House Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions hearing entitled “Meeting the Moment: Improving Access to Behavioral and Mental Health Care” on Thursday, April 15 at 10:15 a.m. (ET).
ERIC Urges Arkansas’s House Leadership to Support Telehealth Bill
On Monday, March 22, in anticipation of HB 1063 being heard in Arkansas’s House Health Care Committees, ERIC urged Speaker Shepherd to support adoption of the legislation.
ERIC Disappointed in Ninth Circuit Panel Decision on Seattle Health Care Hotel Mandate
We continue to believe that recent US Supreme Court decisions have changed the weight and significance of the Ninth Circuit decision in Golden Gate, and are disappointed that the three-judge panel did not agree.
ERIC Victory: Congress Passes Multiemployer and Single Employer Funding Changes; DOL Signals Changes to Investment Rules
The American Rescue Plan heads to the President’s Desk for Signature and the DOL issues enforcement guidance on ESG and Proxy Rules.
Large Employers Oppose Maryland’s HB 581 Health Spending Mandate
Today, ERIC pressed Maryland’s House Appropriations Committee to withdraw HB 581 from consideration. HB 581 is an attempt to enforce certain coverage and reimbursement requirements on ERISA-governed employee benefit plans with beneficiaries in Maryland, which we believe may be preempted by ERISA.