It’s been a long journey since the coronavirus pandemic reached our shores back in early 2020. Over the course of those first few months, governments ordered non-essential businesses shut, indoor dining was banned and people who left their homes were told to wear masks (even for a solitary jog). Houses of worship were ordered closed;…
Read More »The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance for employers regarding the retroactive termination of the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). As you know, when it was first introduced as a part of the CARES Act back in 2020, the ERTC applied only to 2020 as it was scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2020.…
Read More »Just a couple of weeks ago, we told you that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had extended the deadline for filing amici and/or public comments briefs in anticipation of reconsidering and reversing the “make whole” standard it applied to cases involving alleged non-payment of wages decisions. Well, this week the Board announced it was…
Read More »We believe this an important issue and want to keep top of mind within our membership, so a few weeks ago, we advised you of many of the minimum wage increases scheduled to take effect with the arrival of 2022 tomorrow. In that vein, our friends at the Economic Policy Institute have released the Current…
Read More »As if the ongoing labor shortages coupled with these dramatic increases in minimum wages weren’t having a big enough impact on businesses still struggling to recover from the COVID pandemic, some communities are piling on with additional mandates for business beginning tomorrow. A perfect case in point is the city of Portland Maine, where the…
Read More »With a handful of QSR chains – Starbucks in Buffalo New York included – now being unionized, and against the backdrop of the very pro-union Biden administration, it behooves us to keep a watchful eye on unionizing issues in general. Toward that end, the NLRB last week announced a settlement with Amazon in the wake…
Read More »A number of significant changes in California employment and related laws will take effect tomorrow that employers should be aware of. Earlier in the fall, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an array of bills into law – some of which have already become effective – that will have an impact on employers in the Golden State.…
Read More »As DDIFO gets ready to (hopefully) resurrect in-person meetings in the coming months, we wanted to share some survey results from the 2022 Global Meetings and Events Forecast. The Forecast annually measures sentiment within the meetings industry relating in-person meeting activities, meeting industry growth, meeting value and trends among other data. Two-thirds of respondents (67%)…
Read More »As we close the book on 2021, we look anxiously to the New Year with the hope that it will bring about the absolute end of the coronavirus pandemic and all strains and variants of COVID-19. We also look forward with much anticipation to a much happier, healthier, and more prosperous 2022 and in that…
Read More »The final round in the heavyweight fight over a couple of the Biden vaccine mandates – including the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for private employers with 100 or more workers – is set to be argued before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on January 7. In taking up the issues, the…
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