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SBA and Treasury Announce Simpler PPP Forgiveness for Loans of $50,000 or Less Washington, Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the Treasury Department, today released a simpler loan forgiveness application for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans of $50,000 or less. This action streamlines the PPP forgiveness process to […]
Heartland provided a free webinar, COVID-19 HR Guidance and Best Practices, live on Tuesday, March 24 at 11 am CST. During this 45-minute informational session, Kara Govro, Senior Legal Editor, addressed some of the most common HR questions relating to COVID-19. Kara also shared resources and best practices on topics including work-from-home policies, FMLA and […]
Connecticut law now requires sexual harassment training for all employees On June 18, 2019, Connecticut enacted a new state law expanding its sexual harassment training requirements. Employers must now provide two hours of sexual harassment training to all employees, not just supervisors. New employees hired after October 1, 2019, must be trained within six months of hire. […]
If your restaurant hasn’t yet switched to EMV chip cards from swipe and sign payments, it’s costing you money. Although the EMV liability shift went into effect October 2015, nearly one-third of all businesses, including many restaurants and cafes, still haven’t adopted this change. The reasons for not changing vary, but the impact can be […]
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 3.6 percent, it’s becoming harder to find and keep good employees. So you certainly don’t want a preventable administrative error to prompt valued and well-trained staff members to leave. But that’s just what can happen when you make payroll mistakes. When staff paychecks come later than anticipated or are […]
The federal Equal Pay Act went into effect in 1963, but it hasn’t brought an end to pay disparities between men and women. Neither have state laws with the same objective. Long story short: the laws weren’t strong enough, and they didn’t account for all the causes of unequal pay. In many cases, it has […]
Too many employers rely on the concept of employment at-will to protect them, when the reach of this concept is actually quite limited. The problem is that if an employer has little to no documentation and relies on at-will employment—and the theory that legally no reason is required—the terminated employee, their attorney, and possibly a […]