Preparing for Major Changes to DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE Program
Cases Updated in CNIPA Guidelines - Eligibility & Inventiveness for AI & Business Method Applications
Hospice Audit Series | Painting the Picture: How to Advocate for Clinical Hospice Eligibility in the Audit Appeal Process
The OIG's Impending Review of Nationwide Hospice Eligibility Demands a Robust Response From Hospices
Credit Eco to Go Podcast: The XYZ’s of the PPP
Sidebars Podcast | Mary Hannon: Shining the Light on the Wide Gender Gap in the Patent Bar
Applying for PPP Loan Before March 31st Deadline
Medicaid Minute: Three Steps To Hire Relatives and Not Hurt Your Medicaid Eligibility
Paycheck Protection Program – Common Questions and Updated Guidance
Updates to Paid Leave Requirements Under FFCRA
Nota Bene Episode 99: Unpacking the Pendulum of American Patent Policy Then, Now, and Forward with Rob Masters
Three Timely Benefits Items Everyone Should Know
Law Brief: CARES Act Relief for Small Businesses
Understanding and Avoiding Affiliation Under Small Business Contracting Programs
The Friday and Monday Leave Act or the Family and Medical Leave Act: FMLA, Part 1
Podcast: Non-binding Guidance: Expedited Review Programs for Drugs and Biologics
Vermont employers should ensure compliance with an update to the state’s Parental and Family Leave Act (PFLA). H. 461, which took effect on July 1, expands PFLA and now covers individuals in nontraditional family structures....more
Alaska voters approved Ballot Measure 1 (according to unofficial election results) which provides for paid sick leave for all employees in Alaska. (The measure also raises the minimum wage over the next several years and...more
A new COVID-related bonus from the State of Minnesota is coming “to thank those Minnesotans who worked on the frontlines during the COVID-19 peacetime emergency.” Certain employers who employed frontline workers in Minnesota...more
Not surprisingly, simple solutions to complex issues are often elusive. Yet on rare occasions, the solution is in plain sight. Doubtful? For employers struggling with the issue of a remote employee’s eligibility for...more
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation on May 28 creating another statewide mandate for employers to provide emergency paid leave related to COVID-19. The COVID-19 Paid Leave obligations outlined in this...more
With the recent expansion of the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), employers and workplaces that did not previously concern themselves with CFRA now need to understand the ins and outs of CFRA. This includes knowing the...more
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires covered employers with less than 500 employees to provide eligible employees with up to twelve weeks of paid leave. As 2020 comes to an end, here is some...more
Downs Rachlin Martin labor and employment attorney Beth Rattigan goes over updates to paid leave requirements under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. FFCRA revisions and clarifications include: who is eligible,...more
The Situation: The Australian Federal Government has extended the JobKeeper Payment Scheme ("Scheme") with modifications for an additional six months, until 28 March 2021. The fortnightly flat rate subsidy of $1500 per...more
Carlton Fields tax attorney Lowell Walters discusses three timely employee benefits issues: using employee benefits to reduce expenses; helping retirement plan participants in an inconsistent investment market; and, the...more
The European Union (EU) has recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as a potential candidate country for joining the EU. To prepare for joining the EU, Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to the so-called Reform Agenda of 2015 – 2018,...more
In May, the Dutch government extended until October 1, 2020, the economic relief package related to the coronavirus crises, known as the NOW 2.0 scheme. Under this wage subsidy program, businesses that suffer at least a 20%...more
As we previously reported, certain non-instructional, non-administrative school term employees are now be eligible for unemployment compensation this summer. ...more
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related economic downturn, businesses that have laid off workers may be more likely to receive a request for business information from the US Department of Labor in connection...more
On May 15, 2020, the Canadian federal government announced several actions relating to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program. As previously discussed, CEWS is a 75% wage subsidy program to encourage employers to...more
Navigating the intricacies of the Family and Medical Leave Act can be daunting. Who is an eligible employee and an eligible employer? How long does FMLA leave last? What does intermittent FMLA mean? How can you take steps to...more
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “HRTO”) recently rendered its decision on remedy in the Haseeb v. Imperial Oil Limited case, following up on its liability decision in which it found the employer’s practice of...more
Tax-exempt employers whose 403(b) plans have failed to comply with the “once in, always in” eligibility rule in the past should be well on their way to compliance by now. IRS Notice 2018-95 granted limited relief from this...more
On March 7, 2019, the Department of Labor released its long-awaited proposed rules addressing which employees may be eligible for overtime pay. Specifically, the proposed regulations raise the salary threshold from the...more
As we previously reported, New York State adopted the New York Paid Family Leave Law (“Paid Leave Law”) back in April 2016. The Paid Leave Law, which requires employers in New York State to provide up to 12 weeks of paid...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In McCaster v. Darden Restaurants, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s order denying class certification of claims for denial of earned vacation benefits at separation and granting summary...more
Q: We regularly utilize temporary employees, some of whom we hire permanently. Does the time they work as a temp (through an agency) count toward the 12-month and 1,250 hour eligibility requirements?...more