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Report Link Department of Labor Advises Professional Organization Plans Are MEWA's.
Ford & Harrison LLP - July 18, 2006
In a recent information letter to the Attorney General of the State of Nevada, the Department of Labor (DOL) has advised that a health care plan maintained by a professional employer organization (PEO), that covers employees of the PEO's client companies, is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA). The DOL reached this conclusion even though, under the terms of the arrangement between the PEO and its clients, the employees were "shared" by the PEO and its client employers, and even though the PEO was a "co-employer" of the employees for various statutory purposes.
 

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