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.
Houston Methodist Hospital was the first health care employer to be sued for giving employees an ultimatum: Get the covid-19 vaccine or get a new job. It fired more than...
There is no firm timetable yet, but OSHA will soon be rolling out its emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their...
So before we turn our attention to post-season baseball, let’s sort through some pandemic-related payroll questions that have come to our attention.
Must we factor...
Yes, it’s almost that time of year again—W-2 reporting time. (We can hear the groans already.) And no, we’re not referring to those proposed regulations dropping...
Educators from high school to college know when kids crib their assignments from the web. And it seems to be going the same way with claims of religious exemption from...
OSHA’s upcoming emergency temporary standard mandating vaccines for tens of millions of employees won’t reach smaller employers. It will only cover employers with...
The budget reconciliation bill Congress is currently considering is a key piece of legislation and will affect your payroll and benefits administration, as well as...
Now that a particle or two of dust has settled from last Thursday’s announcement that OSHA will write an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring all employers...
You can blame the pandemic — employees are more attuned to health benefits, which means more employees may switch health plans or go into a health plan for the first...
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration took an important step when it gave permanent approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine. This will hopefully be...
Whether you have to tax reimbursements of employees’ business use of their personal cell phones has been kicking around for as long as there have been cell phones....
It’s hurricane season, but the storms don’t simply stop there. While your payroll department may not come with a torrent of wind and rain, it might be embroiled...
Viruses can have lasting impacts on your body. I know because a bad case of the flu once left me with tinnitus. Thankfully, tinnitus isn’t debilitating; it’s merely...
Today we get to don our interior design hat, not something we often get to do in business. However, it’s an important topic of conversation right now for...
Although things are starting to calm just a little, the impacts of pandemic-related legislation, sudden moves to remote work, and more are still being felt. Now is when...
You do everything right — you get prior authorization from your primary care physician to go to an in-network provider, like an imaging center, because you’ve...
As an administrative convenience during the pandemic, lots of state tax agencies just allowed you to continue to withhold for employees’ work states when employees...
After months of confusion, the EEOC finally answered whether you can offer employees incentives to get covid shots. The short answer is yes. However, in truth,...
Last summer there was nowhere to go and no one to go with. Thanks to vaccinations, things are looking up this summer. And right on time, as employees are reporting...
Is there a labor shortage and, if there is, what’s behind it? Are employees still not able to go back to work because, say, their kids are still home from school? Or...
