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On January 22, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of seven individuals in the largest Employee Retention Credit (ERC) fraud scheme to date. According to the indictment, the defendants filed more...more
On January 25, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislatures announced plans to reactivate the expired COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (CSPSL) applying to employers with 26 or more employees, which we...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) extends tax credits to those employers who voluntarily choose to provide paid leave benefits to employees under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). As you may...more
Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday??. This week, several COVID-19 vaccine news developments and updates were announced for employers. Paid Leave Tax Credit for Employers President Biden recently announced employers that offer...more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“American Rescue Act”). In addition to the widely touted direct stimulus payments and extension of the $300 federal unemployment...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) which became law on March 11, 2021, extends and expands an employer’s opportunities to receive payroll tax credits for employee paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus...more
On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (Plan) into law. Among other things, the Plan provides additional stimulus payments to qualifying Americans, extends federal unemployment benefits,...more
On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety directing the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health to issue science-based guidance for employers...more
The Families First Coronavirus Relief Act ("FFCRA") that mandated two weeks of paid sick leave for COVID-19 reasons – and extended the FMLA by protecting leave relating to the need for child care because of COVID-19 – expired...more
2020 is in the rearview mirror. Whew! Unfortunately, COVID-19 is not gone and certainly not forgotten. The latest hot topic has been what to do with employees who think they should get paid leave for COVID-19 reasons that...more
Starting Jan. 1, 2021, employers subject to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) are no longer required to provide employees with COVID-related paid leave, but they may do so in some situations and still...more
The dust has now settled on the new stimulus bill signed by President Trump on December 27, 2020. The changes to the Family First Coronavirus Recovery Act (“FFCRA”) was buried in over 5000 pages of text and provides a choice...more
Late on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law an omnibus stimulus bill. The new legislation contained much needed extensions of unemployment benefits that have supported many Americans who have experienced...more
Congress’s 5593-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, passed by the Senate on December 21, 2020, and signed by the President last night (December 27, 2020), includes an extension of employer tax credits for leave provided...more
Since April 1, employers with fewer than 500 employees have been required to grant paid leave to their employees for a variety of COVID-related reasons. The two paid-leave provisions in the Families First Coronavirus...more
In March 2020, the federal government passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which required employers to provide paid leave to employees under certain circumstances related to the global coronavirus...more
Way back in March, as the pandemic began to set in, Congress quickly passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the Act) as part of a barrage of legislation aimed at providing relief to American workers. The Act...more
While you have been primarily focused on COVID-19-related matters for the past few months, that doesn’t the world of labor and employment law has taken a timeout. While the pace of new developments has slowed somewhat, there...more
Jackson Walker posted its update to FAQs on employment issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The JW updates reflect recent Department of Labor (DOL) regulations and guidelines for employer compliance with the...more
After days of uncertainty and looming deadlines created by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the DOL has finally issued some definitive regulatory guidance, as well as twenty new Q&As to its list of...more
Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, we’ve seen some relief for employers and their workforces. Watch the week’s top workforce management and employment law news, and read further below: CARES Act: What You Need to...more
- The President signed the FFCRA into law on March 18, 2020. The Act will go into effect “not later than 15 days after the date of enactment” (i.e., no later than April 2, 2020). Most employers with 500 or fewer employees are...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partners Harris Mufson, Seth Safra, Mike Lebowich and Guy Brenner discuss recent developments associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Tune in as we address the latest...more
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to increase in the United States. On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, to reduce the impact of this illness on individuals and businesses alike, President Trump signed the Families...more