Mark your calendars today to make sure you don’t miss any of these important HR deadlines!
| Date | Compliance Requirement |
| 06/30/2010 | Mental Health Parity: New regulations on providing parity for employees enrolled in group health plans who need treatment for mental health or substance use disorders apply to plan years starting after this date. |
| 04/30/2012 | New poster requirement: NLRA poster is added to all other poster requirements. |
| 01/01/2011 | Health Care Reform: Employers with calendar plan years starting six months after enactment of the March 2010 health care reform law will be prohibited from using lifetime maximums and restrictive annual maximums starting on this date. They will also be barred from excluding adult children under 26 years old from plan participation and excluding pre-existing conditions for children under 19 years old. |
| 01/31/2012 | IRS: W-2 distribution deadline. 2012 will be the first year that W-2 forms must include the cost of employer paid health plans. |
| 02/01/2012 | OSHA: Most employers are required to post the Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (Form 300A) in their workplaces from Feb. 1 until April 30 of each year. |
| 09/30/2012 | EEO-1 Report: By this date, employers with federal government contracts of $50,000 or more and 50 or more employees and employers that do not have a federal government contract but have 100 or more employees must file an EEO-1 report with the EEOC. |
| 10/15/2012 | Medicare Part D Notice: Employers whose health plans contain prescription drug coverage must distribute an Annual Notice to plan participants who are or who might be eligible for Medicare Part D. |
| 09/30/2012 | 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. |
| 03/23/2012 | Health Care Reform: Plan administrators must provide plan participants with a uniform summary of benefits by this date–24 months after the health care reform law’s enactment. |
| 01/01/2013 | Health Care Reform: Caps on the amount that can be directed to flexible spending accounts will kick in as of this date. |
| 01/01/2014 | Health Care Reform: Some of the health care reform law’s most sweeping changes will take effect on this date, including minimum essential coverage for all plan designs offered by employers with more than 50 full-time employees, no exclusions based on pre-existing conditions, no annual limits, auto enrollment for employees of employers with more than 200 full-time employees and the imposition of employer penalties. |
| 01/01/2015 | PPA: Most U.S. companies will have until at least this date to fully fund their pension plans. |
