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Year-In-Review: ERIC Defeats Redundant New Jersey Emergency Paid Sick Leave Proposal

ERIC

Importantly, New Jersey workers already have access to substantial state-mandated earned sick leave benefits provided by employers, which were further expanded in 2020 to allow employees to use their leave explicitly for COVID-19 circumstances.

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IRS’ tips from the top at 2020 APA Virtual Congress

Business Management Daily

At Tuesday’s first workshop, Payroll Changes for 2020 and Beyond , Andrew Garboden, CPP, Director of Payroll Training at the American Payroll Association and Curtis Tatum, Esq., share of Social Security taxes doesn’t affect your Social Security tax liability. Despite the switch to a virtual format, Sunita Lough, Esq.,

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IRS releases draft coronavirus payroll tax credit forms

Business Management Daily

Quick as jackrabbit, the IRS has released a new draft form and draft instructions for employers that elect to take any of the payroll tax credits contained in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. MediumCo pays $10,000 in sick leave and is required to deposit $8,000 in taxes.

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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA): What you need to know

Insperity

. – which was passed by Congress and signed by the President on March 18, 2020 – went into effect on April 1, 2020, and sunsets on December 31, 2020. Federally mandated paid sick leave. And note that this paid sick leave can be applied to the 10-day elimination period for emergency FMLA leave.

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2020 W-2s: Failing to plan is planning to fail

Business Management Daily

To find out if your state allows SSN truncation on Copy 1, visit your state tax department’s website. We wrote about reporting employees’ pandemic-related paid sick leave in Box 14 back in July. Second, the subject line of your email with employees’ W-2s attached must read IMPORTANT TAX DOCUMENT ENCLOSED.

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February HR News Worth Review

Higginbotham

California Passes Supplemental COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave. California has passed a new supplemental paid sick leave law requiring employers with more than 25 employees to provide up to 40 hours of paid leave for specific COVID-19-related reasons, and 40 additional hours if they or a family member test positive for COVID-19.

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Update: What you need to know about pandemic leave policies in 2021

Business Management Daily

Pandemic leave policies are a hot topic in 2021 after many of the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act’s (FFCRA) federal mandatory provisions expired at the end of 2020. The FFCRA – the first comprehensive federal paid leave law – set the floor for COVID-19 leave. State laws on pandemic leave policies.