News and Updates

U.S. Federal Updates Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Earlier this week, the EEOC updated its What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO...

U.S. Federal Updates President Biden’s Executive Order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors with a covered contract to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has essentially been suspended. The...

Who else can’t believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving? 2021 has been a major improvement over 2020, but we still have a long way to go. 2022 will be even better. We would like to thank our clients,...

U.S. Federal Updates National Paid Leave This has become quite the rollercoaster. Apparently, federal Paid Leave is back in President Biden’s Build Back Better spending bill. So there’s still...

U.S. Federal Updates National Paid Leave Well, it appears our dreams of a nationwide paid leave program have been dashed...for now. We’ll see what happens in the future. There are plenty of other...

U.S. Federal Update National Paid Family Leave? Could it be? National Paid Family Leave...finally? The Build Back Better Act (part of the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation packet) is working its...

U.S. Federal Update Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The Treasury Department and the IRS worked together to issue Notice 2021-53 which provides guidance for employers about...

There’s a lot to get to this time around - things don’t seem to be slowing down one bit. To begin with, we wanted to update you on some of the COVID-19 paid sick leave ordinances that have been...

General Reminder During the last year and a half almost all employers have experienced employees moving away from their usual office or work location, some temporarily and some permanently (and...

U.S. State Updates California Employment Development Department (EDD) The EDD has released its forecast for the 2022 Disability Insurance (DI) Fund. The DI fund provides State Disability Insurance...