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Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

Employers Be Forewarned and Forearmed: Recent IRS Announcements Require Action on ERTC Claims

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/8/2023

Promoters and tax advisors have extensively marketed the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) as a way for employers to reclaim Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) payroll taxes paid during the first two years of the...more

How IRS Is Cracking Down on Employee Retention Tax Credit Fraud

DarrowEverett LLP on 8/8/2023

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has recently devoted great attention to detecting, investigating, and prosecuting fraud, particularly as it relates to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERC”) post-COVID. On a webinar...more

Possible Legal Implications of Remote Work Policies

Stark & Stark on 8/8/2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers required their employees to work remotely to comply with state mandates and ensure their employees’ and customers’ health and safety. That resulted in a shift in attitudes...more

2022 Hot Topics in Employment Law Seminar Highlights

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 5/31/2022

On May 13, 2022, the Miles & Stockbridge Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration practice group presented its twentieth annual Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar to clients from throughout Maryland and beyond. Topics...more

Littler Global Guide - Australia - Q4 2021

Littler on 2/8/2022

Common Law Term of Reasonable Notice Not Displaced by Statutory Minimum Notice Period - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court held that the common law...more

Employers: Deadline for Repayment of CARES Act Social Security Tax Deferrals Fast Approaching

Morgan Lewis on 12/1/2021

Many employers are likely to find the rules for repayment of employer-share social security tax deferrals under the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to be confusing. Employers may also be surprised...more

Year-End Appropriations Act Includes Income and Employment Tax Provisions

Stoel Rives LLP on 1/8/2021

The recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Act) contains a wide range of tax, appropriations, and other provisions, including pandemic-specific provisions and extensions of provisions in the Coronavirus Aid,...more

Legal Challenges with a Remote Workforce: Same Legal Issues, Different Place

NAVEX on 10/1/2020

By now, the majority of companies and their employees have found logistical solutions to make working from home possible during the COVID pandemic: Assets like computers or credit cards can be delivered by courier, for...more

Presidential Memorandum and IRS Notice 2020-65 Defer Employee Payroll Taxes

Jones Day on 9/21/2020

The Situation: On August 28, 2020, the IRS published Notice 2020-65 allowing employers to defer withholding the employee portion of Social Security tax from paychecks. This payroll tax deferral is different from the one...more

To Defer or Not Defer? IRS Issues Guidance Temporarily Delaying the Collection of Social Security Taxes

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/16/2020

Most employers are expected to pass on the IRS’ offer to temporarily delay collecting Social Security taxes. For background, both employers and employees are generally required to pay a Social Security tax at a flat rate of...more

Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - September 2020

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/8/2020

Additional Stimulus Negotiations — Along With A Long-Awaited Federal Liability Shield — Are Going Nowhere, Fast. The negotiations for a new stimulus before August failed. The stakeholders promised a negotiated stimulus...more

IRS Issues Guidance On Payroll Withholding Deferral

Kilpatrick on 9/3/2020

The IRS has issued Notice 2020-65, which implements President Trump’s August 8 memorandum calling for a deferral of withholding of the employee portion of payroll taxes attributable to certain wages. This deferral is...more

Guidance on Directive to Defer Payroll Tax Obligations Leaves Unanswered Questions

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 9/1/2020

On August 8, 2020, the President directed the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize the deferment of certain payroll tax withholding, depositing, and payment obligations otherwise incurred on wages and compensation paid...more

#WorkforceWednesday: COVID-19 Executive Actions, Right-to-Sue Notices, and Liability Shields

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/19/2020

Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday, a quick-browse rundown featuring Employment Law This Week® and other resources. This week, President Trump signs executive actions for COVID-19 relief and states across the country enact...more

New Legislation Includes Employee Benefits Changes: Why M&A Practitioners Should ‘CARE’

Morgan Lewis on 6/19/2020

Financial assistance and other relief provided to employers under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) will have a short- and long-term impact on employee benefit plans in mergers and...more

Furloughs, Workforce Reductions, and Facility Closures Due to Coronavirus: Important Defined Benefit Plan Reporting Obligations

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/16/2020

Employers face unique legal and financial challenges in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such challenge includes the impact of a potential furlough, workforce reduction, or facility closures on benefit plan...more

Corona Pandemia & Partial Reduction of Activity in France

White & Case LLP on 3/30/2020

Partial Reduction of Activity (“Activité partielle”) - All companies whose activity is reduced due to the COVID-19 and in particular, those that are subject to an obligation to close down in application of the Decree of 14...more

UK Announces COVID-19 Job Retention Scheme

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/26/2020

The COVID-19 crisis has led to much uncertainty regarding continuing pay for employees who are unable to work from home, as well as overall job security, in the face of employers’ financial uncertainty....more

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