The U.S. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. Department of Labor announced that small and midsize employers can begin taking advantage of two new refundable payroll tax credits, designed to immediately and fully reimburse them,...

We are seeing an unprecedented situation that is constantly evolving and want to keep you updated. To further keep you up to date, we are sponsoring a webinar on Monday, March 23rd to discuss HR 6021 and other coronavirus related employment concerns. Our...

On Wednesday March 18th, the President signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (HR 6201). We previously wrote about this bill on Monday March 16th and the final version is broadly similar. The bill is set to go into effect within 15 days of...

Late Friday evening, the House of Representative passed HR 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act by a vote of 363 to 40. The text of the bill was negotiated with the Trump Administration and the President has signaled his support for the bill....

As the COVID-19 outbreak expands nationwide, federal, state and local lawmakers are offering a variety of proposals to keep people safe, protect workers who may miss work and support the broader economy. Many proposals focus on public health issues, but...

On Tuesday, March 3 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 60 cases of COVID-19 from 12 states. Twenty-two of these cases are travel-related; 11 are believed to be person-to-person spread; and for the remaining 27 the source of...