Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay What better way could there be to practice social distancing than with a Facebook Live session where we discuss the Families First Coronavirus Response Act? Don’t answer that question. If you missed the party on Friday, be sure to check out the recording either…
Yatko / CC BY-SA Back by popular request, I’ll be hosting a Facebook Live session today at Noon eastern on The Employer Handbook Facebook page. Among other things, I plan to cover: A few additional thoughts on the DOL’s FFRCA rulemaking, including some “deep concerns” from Congress. What happens next?…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com *The Employer Handbook neither guarantees nor represent that anything in today’s post explains ‘everything.’ Instead, in case you hadn’t figured it out already, the author of this blog loves clickbait and Flaming Hot Cheetos. Nonetheless, we think you’re in for a treat today. A CARES Act Paycheck…
By United States Department of the Treasury – https://www.irs.gov, Public Domain, Link (Two posts in one day! And a CARES Act/PPP Amazing Spectacular! I must really love you guys.) Yesterday, the IRS issued this new FFCRA list of Frequently Asked Questions. Among other things, here’s what you need to know…
Phil Murphy / CC BY I blinked last week to focus on FFCRA. And wouldn’t you know it, New Jersey passed more employment legislation. This time, it’s COVID-19 related. But, before I focus on New Jersey and lose everyone else, I want to tell you about this CARES Act Paycheck…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com We’re doing things a bit differently today. Over the weekend, in honor of my 44th birthday, the U.S. Department of Labor updated its Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Questions and Answers. And now we have answers to the following questions: ✔ What is a “health care provider”?…
Videoplasty.com / CC BY-SA It only took me two bottles of NoDoz and a Five Hour Energy chaser to get through the CARES Act, that 880-page behemoth that the Senate passed on Wednesday night. But, before I shower and search for my classiest Simpsons T-shirt to wear for today’s Facebook…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay The President signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on March 18, 2020. In Section 5103 of the FFCRA (right here in the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act section), it says that “[n]ot later than 7 days after the date of enactment of this Act,…
License to use Creative Commons Zero – CC0 – Pikrepo.com I can’t help but notice that many of you are confused about the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. A few of you with whom I have communicated have been getting different answers to the same question from different employment lawyers.…
I have so much on which to catch you up from what went down on Friday — other than the few ounces of brown liquor that lovingly passed my tonsils. It was a long week, folks. Amirite? The U.S. Department of Labor’s Guidance(ish) On Friday, the DOL added two new…