Providing employee benefits for hourly workers, especially healthcare coverage, is a priority topic in most industries today. Especially when there is a mandate to provide such coverage. For San Francisco…
Tag: health and welfare benefits
It’s Here! The 2022 Health and Welfare Fringe Benefit Rate
Every year, government contractors eagerly await the U.S. Department of Labor’s announcement of the new fringe benefit obligation for health and welfare benefits under the Services Contract Act (SCA). The…
Health and Welfare Benefits Under the SCA
The Department of Labor’s annual fringe rate for health and welfare benefits has a massive impact on the operations of SCA contractors. The state of the fringe rate greatly influences…
Government Contractors Need a Fringe Rate Increase
Every year the Department of Labor announces a new rate for fringe benefits. That number is of the utmost importance for thousands of government contractors, as it impacts everything from…
2021 SCA Fringe Rate Announced by the DOL
On July 16, 2021, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued All Agency Memorandum No. 237, announcing that the prevailing health and welfare fringe benefit rate under the…
How a Fringe Benefit Plan Drives Competitiveness
[A version of this article was originally published in the July 2021 issue of Construction Business Owner magazine.] The government contracting industry is in a league of its own when…