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Employee retention credit comes with fewer strings

Business Management Daily

No raises: Only the amounts paid to employees for time they’re not working, and at the rate of pay in effect prior to the increase, count as qualified wages. If, for example, you take the corporate credit for providing paid sick leave, you can’t also take the retention credit for the same wages paid to the same employee.

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How to retain parents after parental leave

HR Digest

In a 2019 survey by service provider Workplace Options 23% of employed parents indicated that they had at some point considered giving up their job – due to incompatibility with childcare. Do you offer paid sick leave for children ? Women made this indication three times as often as men.

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COVID-19 pandemic: How to prepare your business

Insperity

News about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or “the coronavirus”) pandemic understandably can be unsettling, but infectious disease outbreaks need not induce panic. Assess whether in-bound materials coming from an outbreak area should be quarantined to avoid surface transmission to employees.

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No further pandemic relief in the pipeline, but you still have options

Business Management Daily

Similar to the pandemic-related paid sick leave provisions, under this section of the tax code, full-time employees (i.e., those who work at least 30 hours a week) are entitled to a minimum of two weeks of paid FMLA leave and part-time employees are entitled to a proportionate amount of paid leave.

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Camps are closed: Is your employee eligible for paid leave?

Business Management Daily

The Department of Labor has issued a Field Assistance Bulletin to guide its investigators in determining whether employers improperly denied paid leave to qualified employees. Did employees’ children attend the same camp or program during 2018 or 2019? FFCRA Background. Proceed with caution.

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Benchmarking and Surveys Gauge if Employee Benefits are on Target

Corporate Synergies

Paid sick leave. © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC. Employee premium cost. Employee premium contribution. Medical copay. Prescription drug copay. Office visit copay. Emergency room copay. Voluntary benefits offerings. Salary ranges. HR & Benefits Resources: First Aids for Busy People.

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The Potential Regulatory Minefields of Managing Employee Leave

Corporate Synergies

As of this writing, 12 states have expanded the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to add more time off or more classes of people covered. California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington have laws covering paid family leave. Five states currently require paid sick leave.