Leave Act (ESPLA) and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA), ended by its own terms. Though it’s not exactly riding off into

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

We all no doubt feel like we’ve been living “Murphy’s Law,” but today the New Jersey Governor has issued a definitive Executive Order that is surprisingly less

On March 11, 2020, The WHO finally declared this thing a pandemic, claiming we won’t get fooled again. Although everything is changing rapidly, the information we brought

Forget about your brackets, March Madness is not about basketball this year, it’s all about Coronavirus.  Employers have a lot of questions and we’ve got answers, but

Enough about new laws. Let’s talk about some old news.  This week, a jury put an exclamation point after #MeToo by convicting Harvey Weinstein in his