Tax Credit for Employers Who Give Employees Paid Leave for Covid Vaccination and Recovery

15 June 2021 | June 2021

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) allows small and mid-size employers, and certain governmental employers, to claim refundable tax credits that reimburse them for the cost of providing paid sick and family leave to their employees due to COVID-19, including leave taken by employees to receive or recover from COVID-19 vaccinations. The ARP tax cre...

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Employers Must Find and Tell Laid-off Employees of Health Subsidies

15 June 2021 | June 2021

Before May 31, 2021, employers must notify certain former employees that they may be entitled to free health care coverage under recent federal legislation. The new law provides fully subsidized coverage through COBRA from April 1 through September 30, 2021 for employees who were laid off or lost their job-based health coverage due to reduced hours during...

How the Union Analyzed Its Loss at Amazon

15 June 2021 | June 2021

The 71% to 29% loss by the union campaign at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama, is the most well-publicized and significant union election of the decade. The union brought in outside groups to show their strength and solidarity, including churches, the NFL Players' Association, Black Lives Matter organizers, and national celebrities including Senator Bernie San...

Biden Orders Creation of Pro-union Task Force

15 June 2021 | June 2021

In May, President Biden signed an executive order creating a task force to promote labor organizing as part of a push to strengthen unions. According to the White House, the Order will direct the task force to promote new ways of using the federal government's policies to encourage workers to organize and successfully bargain with employers. It will be le...

Favorable Trump Independent Contractor Rule Canceled by Biden

15 June 2021 | June 2021

The Trump Administration issued a federal regulation making it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors. While the Trump regulation listed five factors for consideration, the two given the far greatest weight were the nature and degree of the worker's control over the work, and the worker's opportunity for profit or loss based ...

TPS Status Added for Burma and Venezuela

15 June 2021 | June 2021

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows nationals of a foreign country to live and work in the U.S. because of conflict or disaster preventing their safe return to their home country. In March, the Department of Homeland Security made the announcement allowing Venezuelans and Burmese to be granted TPS, and extending the status for Syrian nationals living ...

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Biden Uses Executive Authority to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 for Government Contractors

11 June 2021 | June 2021

President Biden campaigned on a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 by 2026. He first tried to carry out this campaign promise as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, but the Senate parliamentarian ruled that raising the federal minimum wage does not meet requirements to pass the bill by a majority vote (without the opportunity for a filibust...

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Reporting Deadline for EEO-1 Coming up Fast

03 May 2021 | May 2021

After a brief hiatus due to the COVID-19 health emergency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is reminding covered businesses that they must report EEO-1 Component 1 data for both 2019 and 2020 by July 19, 2021. The portal for data collection and submission will open April 26, 2021.

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President Biden's Infrastructure Bill May Be Designed to Strengthen Organized Labor

03 May 2021 | May 2021

President Biden is in the process of proposing his second multi-trillion bill, on infrastructure, with a third multi-trillion bill to follow thereafter. Unlike President Obama's infrastructure bills, however the infrastructure bill produced in April, called the American Jobs Plan, would require employers benefitting from an infusion of infrastructure fund...

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Politics Is Risky Business for CEOs

03 May 2021 | May 2021

The above headline appeared in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. The writer of the article, a former CEO of American Express, advises that executives should not take a company position on public-policy questions that do not directly affect their business. Among other things, the article points out that whatever political statements are made,...

Pro Act Suppresses Employee Right to Vote in Union Elections

03 May 2021 | May 2021

This writer is from Georgia, where a recently passed state law has been accused by the media of discouraging voting by minorities. While this writer believes this claim is overstated at best, and false at worst, as evidenced by the fact that both Democrat activist Stacey Abrams and Republican former President Trump believe that recent elections in Georgia...

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