Overview
Todd Solomon pointed out that because the legalization of same-sex marriage will eliminate the varied state benefit rules that required manual input into automated administrative systems, “the good news is the complexity, in large part, will go away” for employers. That is particularly true, he added, because most HR systems weren’t designed to handle employees who were classified as married for federal purposes but not for state purposes, meaning “everything like that had to be done manually.” Read the full article
