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Governor Lamont signs House Bill 7501 into law on January 6, 2020. As we say goodbye to 2019 (and await commencement of the 2020 session of the Connecticut General Assembly in February), the General Assembly via a “Special Session” passed a bill to...By: Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and

On December 20, 2019 the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019 (2019 Disaster Act) was signed into law. This law was intended to address disaster relief and to provide technical corrections and amendments needed to clarify other...By: Varnum LLP

More and more, I have noticed employees are recording their employers. Smartphones, along with other technological advances, have made recording or videoing workplace conversations very easy. These recordings can be used in litigation and have the...By: Jaburg Wilk

According to the requestor, the employer informs its employees in advance that they will be eligible to receive a lump-sum bonus of $3,000 if they successfully complete ten weeks of training and agree to continue training for an additional eight...By: Arent Fox

Under Connecticut law, the “Safe Harbor” provision of  C.G.S. § 31-294c (b) has widely been interpreted as providing protections, for up to one year, to respondent employers and insurers who pay or deny a workers’ compensation claim, within 28 days...By: Chartwell Law

Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code requires corporations to provide information statements to employees (including former employees) and information filings to the IRS regarding exercises of incentive stock options (ISOs) by employees and...By: Goodwin

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations on December 20, 2019, under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), which implement the amendments to Section 162(m) set forth by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017...By: Morgan Lewis

A 360-degree view of compliance is an effort to incorporate your compliance identity into a holistic approach so that compliance is in touch with and visible to your employees at all times. It is about creating a distinctive brand philosophy of...By: Thomas Fox

Q: How long does an employee have to return FMLA certification? A: The employee has 15 calendar days to return medical certification to qualify for FMLA unless with “diligent” and “good faith” efforts the employee cannot do so....By: Davis Brown Law Firm

Good news for tax-exempt organizations! The “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020” (H.R. 1865 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)) (the “Act”) signed into law on December 20, 2019, retroactively repealed Section 512(a)(7) of the Internal Revenue...By: Bracewell LLP