The headlines from the American Rescue Plan Act are all about the $1400 recovery rebate credits.
But for employers, there are a lot more details about the tax issues and employee benefit issues that are contained within ARPA.
My colleagues have prepared a thorough summary on our sister blog, Employment Law Letter. One item that
It’s late March, which means that it’s too soon to predict which bills at the Connecticut General Assembly are going to have enough support for final passage, but not too soon to take a look at what is on the table.
By “on the table”, I mean bills that have been voted out of the
A few years ago, I talked with some students about a report they were doing for NPR about how hairstyles and race have been historically intertwined.
Earlier this week, the Connecticut General Assembly gave final approval a bill that seeks to right some of these historical wrongs by making it illegal to discriminate in employment
Since March of 2020 (has it really been a year?!), the Governor has ordered employers to allow employees to work from home if they can in many industries. Many other employers have just decided to do it anyways.
Working from home has been far from a temporary thing; it’s THE thing.
But what about providing
With many workplaces now going on a year with remote workers, issues that were thought to be temporary blips are turning into major headaches.
Suppose your office in Stamford, Connecticut is closed and employee are allowed to work remotely.
What happens to those New York residents who are now working from home 24/7?
What about
Did you hear the one about the two employment lawyers who walked into a Zoom?
If you know of a good punch line, then you may have figured out that the answer is actually a link: Employment law attorney Eric Meyer (who writes the always topical blog Employer Handbook) and I have a lunchtime
If you thought the new Biden White House would take it easy on the use of Executive Orders, you haven’t been paying attention. President Biden has been indicating that he would use Executive Orders liberally in the first few days to either develop policy or turn around policies that he believes should be revoked.
The
If 2020 was a year full of twists and hairpin turns, 2021 is proving to be a worthy successor — at least when it comes to paid leave.
There are a lot of news articles out there but I thought a quick recap of where we are (and where we are expecting to go) would
In my last semester in law school, we had a program where you could serve as a legal fellow in a Congressional office instead of taking classes. I was all too happy to work a 40 hour week (instead of 12 hours of classes) and get picked for a legal fellowship in the office of
With both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock the likely winners of the U.S. Senate races in Georgia, a result that seemed unlikely just two months ago, Congress is suddenly back to being a major player in the next year or two.
Over the last several years, the amount of legislation coming out of