Staffing Industry News

On May 18, 2021, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted an urgency ordinance requiring employers to provide paid leave to eligible employees who need time off related to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Officially titled “Employee Paid Leave for […]

Employers that encourage or require workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus must carefully navigate legal requirements and government recommendations—but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently gave employers a break.

New York City enacted a law that creates a mandatory auto-enrollment payroll deduction individual retirement account (IRA) program for private-sector employees whose employers don’t offer a retirement plan and employ five or more people.

New IRS guidance for employers on the 100-percent premium subsidy to eligible COBRA enrollees, for coverage through Sept. 30, addresses how the subsidy’s payroll tax credit works.

Several weeks after the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provided temporary Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) subsidies to eligible individuals, the IRS has issued a lengthy 40-page FAQ answering many employers’ lingering questions on how the subsidy works. As […]

​Student federal loan repayments—and interest on that debt—have been paused during the pandemic, but as of October 2021 borrowers will have to start repaying those debts. There’s ample reason for employers to consider ways they could help employees minimize this […]

California lawmakers passed an expanded COVID-19 supplemental paid-sick-leave law in March that included coverage for employees to get vaccinated. More recently, the county of Los Angeles passed an urgency ordinance that mandates additional paid leave for some employees in unincorporated […]

The IRS addressed confusion over the taxability of dependent care flexible spending account funds for 2021 and 2022, clarifying that it won’t tax amounts that COVID-19 relief provisions allowed to be carried over from year to year, or that are […]

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