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Your COVID-19 payroll questions, our answers

Business Management Daily

However, it’s also apparent that lots of the day-to-day questions Payroll pros have are going unanswered. The first rule of payroll administration—cash is always taxable—is beatable by having employees substantiate their costs by turning in receipts. EFMLA for employees on emergency paid FMLA leave. And they are helpful.

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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

This counting is done at the corporate level and includes employees on the payroll as of Nov. Report work-related COVID fatalities to OSHA within eight hours of learning about them and work-related COVID in-patient hospitalizations within 24 hours of learning about the hospitalization. Which employers are covered? 4, 2022.

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Helping Employees During Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

Best Money Moves

Healthcare workers, delivery drivers and grocery store shelf stockers are being overworked while waiters, bartenders, musicians and those in the hospitality industry are dealing with shutdowns, layoffs, and unemployment. Paid Leave. The Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak is dramatically reshaping the working world.

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

Business Management Daily

That is, if an employer wishes to take the tax credit, it may approve leave. However, it can only take the credit for providing leave to employees who had not used leave before December 31. The FFCRA created two new types of leave, Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) and Emergency Family and Medical Leave (EFML).

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A closer look at the Families First Cornoavirus Response Act

Business Management Daily

Here are the provisions of interest to Payroll and HR. However, benefits paid under this law are reduced dollar-for-dollar by the amount of any state or private paid-leave benefits employees receive. Paid sick days for personal and family care. 6201, Families First Coronavirus Response Act very soon.

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Accommodate or Terminate? Firing on ADA legal considerations

Business Management Daily

An employee takes the new paid Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFRCA) leave when she develops COVID-19. In fact, she’s still hospitalized and takes 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA leave for a serious health condition. Her employer runs her company paid sick leave concurrent with her FMLA leave.

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FMLA leave is complicated by sunsetting COVID relief act

Business Management Daily

Workers may soon find themselves without paid FMLA leave. Working parents may find themselves unable to take needed leave for childcare. With COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths spiking in many regions, schools and daycares that reopened during the early fall lul may soon close.