Alice Gilman is an employment tax compliance expert with more than 25 years of experience and is the editor of Business Management Daily's Payroll Legal Alert. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and received her law degree from the University of Bridgeport.
While employers may use arbitration agreements to resolve disputes with employees, it's not a way to avoid accountability entirely. Government agencies can still...
Texas is taking legal action to challenge the new HIPAA privacy rule and the original HIPAA privacy regulations from 2000. They specifically want to invalidate the parts...
Employees need to designate their pretax deductions before the start of the plan year. This means changes for the 2025 calendar-year plans need to be made very soon.
The IRS has begun sending out letters to employers who it believes wrongly claimed the employee retention credit. Some of these letters contain significant errors.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released new guidelines on workplace harassment, the first comprehensive update since 1999. The agency stresses...
Hiring Teens for the Summer
Summer is a popular time for businesses to hire teenagers for seasonal work. As many of these young workers may be taking on their first...
We have fond memories of Wonder Bread when we were growing up. The balloons on the package added some je ne sais quoi to our PBJ sandwiches. We never thought about the...
The Department of Labor issued its long-awaited final worker status rule. The final rule adopts the proposed rule with few changes. The new rule becomes effective March...
We’ve covered the taxability of gift cards before, and the law hasn’t changed—with three exceptions, the face value of gift cards is always taxable because...
We started our W-2 series feature earlier this year, giving us more time to explore W-2 issues, which, based on questions we’ve been encountering, are beginning to...
Every election is important. And we would argue that elections at the local level are the most important of all, since these elected officials are closest to the people...
The IRS has kept its promise to provide relief to employers that filed Forms 941-X to claim the pandemic-era employee retention credit for which they aren’t eligible....
The FBI and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued an alert to critical infrastructure companies warning them of a new ransomware...
The IRS is so serious about IRIS, its new simplified e-filing platform for information returns, that it’s convening monthly working group meetings over the internet....
You’d be forgiven if you haven’t noticed the ongoing criminal fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency wunderkind. His crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed,...
Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month. With many high-profile cybersecurity attacks in the news in recent years, it’s worth paying extra attention to the topic....
The Associated Press reports that more school districts are switching to four-day schedules. Kids love it, of course, and it may be a neat recruiting tool for school...
The debate over on-demand pay continues to be waged—is it a loan or a wage advance? The answer matters, because state wage payment laws control the deductions you can...
Proposed regulations raising the salary employees must earn to be exempt from overtime were published in last Friday’s Federal Register. You have until Nov. 7 to...
You can help employees with their current educational expenses, pick up their student loans, or even help out employees’ children with their educational expenses. But...
