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May 16, 2023
Overlapping federal and state laws leave corporate wellness programs exposed to legal challenges, but many employers are still interested because of the potential savings they offer on health care costs. Here, Law360 takes a look at some of the key issues companies are grappling with as they decide whether enticing workers to get healthy is worth it.
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March 30, 2018
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday that it may not put out new rules for incentivizing workplace wellness programs until Congress confirms outstanding nominees for two seats on the commission, including the chair.
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January 19, 2018
A D.C. federal judge who recently ordered the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to start over on its rules for workplace wellness programs has walked back his requirement that the agency issue public notice by August for replacement regulations, but said Thursday the existing rules must still be vacated in 2019.
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January 17, 2018
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday asked the D.C. federal judge who rejected its rules for incentivizing workplace wellness programs to revise his order for replacement rules, arguing he does not have the power to set the agency's schedule.
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December 20, 2017
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules for incentivizing employees who participate in workplace wellness programs will be vacated on Jan. 1, 2019, a D.C. federal judge said Wednesday, finding that the rules need to end but that doing so sooner would wreak havoc on employee health plans.
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September 29, 2017
The AARP criticized the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's 2021 target for replacing rules for incentivizing employee participation in workplace wellness programs on Thursday, pushing a Washington, D.C., federal judge to protect workers by nixing the current rules next year.
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September 22, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has set a mid-2018 target for proposing revisions to its regulations covering employer-sponsored wellness programs, according to a status report filed on Thursday in an AARP suit that last month saw the prior rules kicked back to the agency for review.
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August 22, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must reconsider two regulations surrounding employer-sponsored wellness programs that had been challenged by the AARP, a federal judge found Tuesday, but he kept the rules in place for the time being to avoid "disruption and confusion."
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July 06, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot simply pluck numbers from the air when allowing for higher premiums for workers who don't participate in wellness programs, AARP Inc. told a D.C. federal judge in oral arguments Thursday.
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May 31, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday urged a Washington, D.C., federal court to toss the AARP's challenge of two federal regulations over wellness programs, saying that its rules reasonably define the parameters that make a program "voluntary" and that those interpretations deserve court deference.