2009 Employer Deadlines

by | Jul 22, 2009 | HR Compliance, HR Legislative Updates

Keep these dates handy and be sure to bookmark this page as I’ll update this post with new and changing dates.

Date Requirement
4/3/09 Immigration: New Form I-9 and its requirements become effective on this date.
4/30/09 PPA: The Pension Protection Act (PPA) requires many defined benefit plans to provide information about the plan’s funding status by this date.
5/1/09 GINA: Comments on the proposed rule clarifying Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) are due to the EEOC by this date.
5/21/09 E-Verify: Federal contractors and subcontractors must use E-Verify, the electronic employment verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, by this date.
5/21/09 GINA: Title I of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which applies to group health plans, takes effect, except for calendar-year plans.
7/24/09 Minimum Wage: The federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 per hour.
8/17/09 HIPAA: By this date, under amendments to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services must issue interim final regulations governing a health plan’s duty to notify individuals whose protected health information has been breached. The duty to notify requirement would apply to breaches discovered on or after 30 days of these regulations being issued.
9/30/09 VETS-100A Report: By this date, federal contractors must file the VETS-100A Report for government contracts of $100,000 or more that were entered into or modified on or after Dec. 1, 2003, as well as the VETS-100 Report for any unmodified government contracts of $25,000 or more that were entered into prior to Dec. 1, 2003.
10/09/09 Health insurance: Michelle’s Law goes into effect on this date.
11/21/09 GINA: The employment provisions of GINA (Title II) take effect.