Author: Robert Hernandez

Dive Brief:    The Society for Human Resource Management and 41 other business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to clarify "the extent to which employers may offer employees incentives to vaccinate."  In a Feb. 1...

24 February, 2021

WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service recently issued guidance allowing deductions for the payments of eligible expenses when such payments would result (or be expected to result) in the forgiveness of a loan (covered loan) under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This...

19 February, 2021

If you have employees, you must deposit all the federal income tax you withhold from your employees (based on their W-4 forms), including both the employer and employee portions of Social Security and Medicare taxes. Based on your situation, you may have to make deposits on...

18 February, 2021

On its website, the IRS has provided special instructions for reporting any deferred amount of employee Social Security tax on the 2020 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement [Form W-2 Reporting of Employee Social Security Tax Deferred Under Notice 2020-65, 10/29/2020]. Tax deferral. An executive memorandum...

17 February, 2021

In 2020, the IRS published an alert urging employers and taxpayers to beware of tax scams, including payroll phishing schemes. And that's only the beginning when it comes to payroll threats. In general, employers must also guard against: Noncompliance with payroll laws, whether intentional or unintentional. ...

16 February, 2021

In a new opinion letter, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division examined the compensability of training time [FLSA 2020-15, 11/3/2020]. Basic rules. Two keys to the compensability of training time are whether the training is related to the employee’s job and whether it takes...

15 February, 2021

In an ideal world, communication would be easy. We’d immediately know exactly what to say or write. Emails, Slack messages, and reply threads would practically write themselves. And there’d be no confusion about what anyone meant, ever.  Of course, communication never works that way. We stare...

11 February, 2021

We live in a fast-paced society where people are forever on the go. There's hardly ample time for work-life balance, let alone continuing education. Yet studies show that employees want opportunities for learning and development. According to a Gallup survey, 87 percent of millennials say professional...

10 February, 2021