Alice Gilman is an employment tax compliance expert with more than 25 years of experience and is the editor of Business Management Daily's Payroll Legal Alert. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and received her law degree from the University of Bridgeport.
Last week it snowed hard in the Mid-Atlantic region, notably south of Washington, D.C., where Politico reported Sen. Tim Kaine (D.–Va.) was stuck in his car on I-95...
OSHA’s vaccine mandate continues to cause stress and frustration for employers, employees, and many more. Recently, packs of lawyers have begun descending on the...
What comes after omicron? We shiver at the answer. What we thought were temporary changes in response to the pandemic may not, in fact, be so temporary, especially if...
Lots of House and Senate committees have their fingers in the Build Back Better Act pie. The BBB—the budget reconciliation bill—already passed the House. The Senate...
The employee retention credit expired retroactively and earlier than many employers had anticipated—at the end of the third quarter, instead of the end of the fourth...
It’s time to talk about computer security again. With the holiday shopping season here, employees will be doing a lot of online shopping — some of which will...
If you deferred depositing your 6.2% share of Social Security taxes last year, the time to make your first payment is approaching quickly. Half your deferral is due Jan....
While the fate of the federal government’s OSHA mandate remains in question as it sits in the 6th Circuit Court, employers are left wondering what to do next....
We’re not finished with OSHA’s vaccine mandate standard simply because the 5th Circuit slapped a stay on it. The 6th Circuit Court, which has been chosen to hear the...
As the year ends, questions of taxes, domicile, and residency should be top of mind for employers looking to avoid any unnecessarily complex tax issues in the new year....
OSHA’s new COVID Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) have sent businesses into a scramble trying to adjust and prepare for the deadlines, though recent court cases...
OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard — a/k/a/ the vaccine mandate — hit the Office of the Federal Register. Employers have been waiting with anticipation and the...
The EEOC recently updated its guidance on mandatory COVID vaccinations and their interplay with the ADA and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Now it has...
Employees are quitting jobs at an alarming rate. Some pundits are calling this the Great Resignation. Since we can’t think of anything cleverer, we’ll stick with it....
The EEOC has been at the forefront of issuing guidance about the relationship between covid, vaccinations, and the workplace. However, with things constantly changing,...
Maybe you’ve encountered employees who won’t tell you their covid vaccination status because they say you’re infringing on their medical privacy. Nothing could be...
HR departments are more frequently offering expansive and creative new “lifestyle” benefits, which are being packaged along with health benefits during open...
Houston Methodist Hospital was the first health care employer to be sued for giving employees an ultimatum: Get the covid-19 vaccine or get a new job. It fired more than...
There is no firm timetable yet, but OSHA will soon be rolling out its emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their...
So before we turn our attention to post-season baseball, let’s sort through some pandemic-related payroll questions that have come to our attention.
Must we factor...
