
Happy Panniversary! We Got You Yet Another New Law
Can you believe it’s been a whole year? Time sure flies when you’re hiding inside fearing a deadly virus. To celebrate our Panniversary, we got
Can you believe it’s been a whole year? Time sure flies when you’re hiding inside fearing a deadly virus. To celebrate our Panniversary, we got
One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Yo dudes, like Phil and those other jokers tokers from the legislature finally got it together! Man they
Got that morning after, post-game hangover? Those two beers do you in or was it the heartburn from the Hell Fire Buffalo Wings? Maybe like us,
Most people pretend that they don’t enjoy saying “I told you so,” but not us. We kinda like love saying it. In fact, we rarely pass up an
While 2020 will be known to most for its countless cursed events, in our little employment law bubble we will always think of it as
One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Dear Mark and Bill: Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus, there
After years of toiling in our workshop, we have finally come up with the solution to our most consistently ignored annual advice. As our avid
Last week, NYS broke its pact with neighbors NJ and CT by instituting its own new set of travel rules, dropping the list of naughty
Don’t go to Murphy’s house for Halloween this year — he’s handing out Executive Orders. Great way to get your house egged Phil! One of
Four years ago, during the Presidential election campaign, we told employers to limit or prohibit political chatter at work in order to maintain civility and
Remember long ago when we first told you about that pesky Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) that went into effect on April 1, 2020? You know, it’s the
Many employers had targeted the unofficial end of summer as the artificial end to this whole remote work thing. But as we have now crossed
On the very long list of the workplace things that have changed (and keep changing) because of you-know-what, is a phenomenon we didn’t anticipate—or at
There’s no doubt that technologies like Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams have saved many employers from economic disaster by facilitating remote work. But as states like New Jersey and New
Congress was no doubt well-intentioned in April when it created 3 new forms of Unemployment Insurance benefits in the CARES Act. But now many employers
One of our avid readers writes and asks: Dear Mark and Bill: I finally stopped sleeping in the fetal position and felt that we had
While we had hoped for a week of news on the lighter side, who would have thought that intense racial tension and violence would provide
What is it with the PPP and weekends? We recently espoused our theory that the Treasury Department so dislikes lawyers and accountants that it issued its 14th set
We didn’t realize just how much the Treasury Department dislikes lawyers and accountants, but we do now. On the Friday evening of Memorial Day Weekend,
One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Dear Mark and Bill: My boss just put me in charge of figuring out how to
One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Dear Mark and Bill: My company took a PPP loan and we told our employees to
In the first episode of Pondering Potential Post-Pandemic Problems, we covered some of the claims we anticipate will result from the decisions employers have made in
Can you tell we’re losing our minds? Alliteration calms us. Among the contributing factors to our breakdown is our clairvoyant concern with post-Pandemic pandemonium from
We now know this is a marathon. Among our wishes for what happens when we cross the finish line is that we want the word unprecedented to
While we will continue to keep you up-to-date on the important legal issues about which you need to be aware, we thought we’d take a
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