The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) this week issued an email alert advising that the extended timeframes authorized on March 20, 2020 for employees to resolve SSA and E-Verify Tentative Nonconfirmations (mismatches) will no longer be available as of last Friday, July 15, 2022. As of that date, the SSA resumed normal operations regarding E-Verify…
Read More »Last Friday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) along with the U.S. Department of the Treasury published a new guidance relating deferral of the employee share of payroll taxes for social security. The guidance (Notice 2020-65) provides that an employer choosing to defer the payment of employee payroll taxes between now and the end of the…
Read More »Just a week after asking in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for clarity on President Trump’s Executive Order allowing deferral of Social Security payroll taxes, the US Chamber of Commerce this week came out in opposition to it. In a letter sent this week to Mnuchin, Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate…
Read More »Senate Democrats are already lining up against legislation that would create a federal paid family leave policy for workers to access for the birth of a child or the caring of an ill family member. The bill, known as the Economic Security for New Parents Act will allow parents to borrow from Social Security when…
Read More »In Hollywood circles, we had Bennifer (Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez) along with Bradgelina (Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie), but now Ivanka Trump and Senator Marco Rubio (could they be jointly ID’d as “Ivarco”?) are joining forces to push for adoption of a national paid sick leave policy. Their idea, which Rubio is still crafting…
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