Private sector employers must file their 2017 Employer Information Report (EEO-1) by March 31, 2018. Covered Employees. All private employers with 100 or more employees and federal government contractors or first-tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of ...

What is Changing? On January 11, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 1036, the “Early Release Copies of the 2018 Percentage Method Tables for Income Tax Withholding” to implement provisions included in the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act), which ...

The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2018-03 providing the 2018 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, and moving purposes.  As of January 1, 2018, the standard mileage rates for the use of a ...

If an employee qualifies, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, is used by the employee to tell their employer not to deduct any federal income tax from his or her wages. To qualify for this exempt status, the employee must have had no tax ...

Overview. On September 8, 2017, Delaware Governor John Carney signed into law House Bill 64 which amends the state’s family leave provisions for state employees. Details.  Under House Bill 64, in the event a mother who is a full time employee has a pregnancy complication that ...

As expected, on June 27, 2017, the DOL has sent the Office of Management and Budget a request for information (RFI) on the DOL’s final overtime rule updating the FLSA’s white collar exemptions, issued May 23, 2016 (which would have nearly doubled the salary threshold that a worker ...

In our last Issue of the Compliance Newsletter, we told you that Arizona’s Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (the “Act”), which established a new minimum wage (effective January 1, 2017) and a new paid sick leave requirement (effective July 1, 2017), was being contested in ...

Overview.  Wyoming has amended the law permitting the time period for the payment of wages upon termination of employment to be at a different time, if specified in a collective bargaining agreement between the employer and the employee. Details.  Federal law does not require ...

The Internal Revenue Service would like to remind individuals about the Additional Medicare Tax.  Some taxpayers may be required to pay an Additional Medicare Tax if their income is over a certain limit. Information explaining the Additional Medicate Tax is provided below. Tax ...

Overview.  U.S. law requires companies to employ only individuals who may legally work in the United States – either U.S. citizens, or foreign citizens who have the necessary authorization.  E-Verify is an internet-based system that allows businesses to determine the eligibility ...