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Pastors and clergy are among those individuals who will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when state officials expand to the next phase of vaccinations. In accordance with federal guidelines, state officials are making vaccines available by groups. North Carolina is currently vaccinating groups 1 and...

26 February, 2021

Reminder: OSHA Form 300A Must Be Posted by February 1   The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all employers who are required to maintain the OSHA 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses post a summary of the previous calendar year’s log between February...

25 February, 2021

Dive Brief:    The Society for Human Resource Management and 41 other business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to clarify "the extent to which employers may offer employees incentives to vaccinate."  In a Feb. 1...

24 February, 2021

WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service recently issued guidance allowing deductions for the payments of eligible expenses when such payments would result (or be expected to result) in the forgiveness of a loan (covered loan) under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This...

19 February, 2021

If you have employees, you must deposit all the federal income tax you withhold from your employees (based on their W-4 forms), including both the employer and employee portions of Social Security and Medicare taxes. Based on your situation, you may have to make deposits on...

18 February, 2021

On its website, the IRS has provided special instructions for reporting any deferred amount of employee Social Security tax on the 2020 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement [Form W-2 Reporting of Employee Social Security Tax Deferred Under Notice 2020-65, 10/29/2020]. Tax deferral. An executive memorandum...

17 February, 2021

In 2020, the IRS published an alert urging employers and taxpayers to beware of tax scams, including payroll phishing schemes. And that's only the beginning when it comes to payroll threats. In general, employers must also guard against: Noncompliance with payroll laws, whether intentional or unintentional. ...

16 February, 2021

In a new opinion letter, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division examined the compensability of training time [FLSA 2020-15, 11/3/2020]. Basic rules. Two keys to the compensability of training time are whether the training is related to the employee’s job and whether it takes...

15 February, 2021