President Joe Biden has proposed requiring employers to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, funded by new federal taxes. The program would be phased in over a 10-year period.
As reported in late March, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection began on Monday, April 26, 2021 — and employers have until Monday, July 19, 2021, to submit these two years’ worth of data. On […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, funded through payroll taxes, were exhausted. As a result, employers’ UI payroll taxes could double over the next two to three years, benefits advisors predict.
It frequently surprises business leaders to learn that the thing holding them back from their remote-work vision is a piece of hardware in their office. But company servers often host mission-critical IT infrastructure.
in many cases, going virtual resulted in positive learning outcomes and welcome cost savings, in others, virtual education fell short of expectations due to a lack of follow-up coaching and practice to reinforce newly learned skills.
After April 30, employers can remove their Form 300A, Annual Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses posting, which they’ve had displayed at their place of business since February 1. Although the posting period will be over, employers must still retain […]
As COVID-19 vaccines become widely available and businesses look to safely resume travel, employers may be wondering if they can require “vaccine passports”—proof of…
If a manager tells an employee, in confidence, that the business may be closing, can the employee warn colleagues? When an independent contractor becomes a full-time…
Most employers expect a rise in activism among their employees by 2024. With no uniform definition of what employee activism is, or a singular response that works for…
The new 100 percent premium subsidy for COBRA coverage is in effect through September 2021. Here are answers to some of the most common and interesting questions that benefits attorneys say they’ve been asked.
