Navigating USA Business Immigration Issues
Burr & Forman s Melissa Azallion Kenny wrote a guest blog post for Upstate SC Alliance titled, Navigating USA Business Immigration Issues, discussing employer considerations in the era of COVID-19 & changing administrations.
Does the Second Pandemic Relief Bill Provide Any Relief to Employers with Employees Out of Work Due to COVID?
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act ( FFCRA ) expired on December 31, 2020. However, on December 21, 2020, Congress passed a second pandemic relief bill that permits employers to claim tax credits through March 31, 2021.
As expected, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced the withdrawal of three opinion letters issued in the waning days of the Trump administration. The.
This development supersedes Roetzel’s previous alert on this topic on January 19, 2021.
On January 20, 2021, the Biden administration issued a regulatory freeze memorandum requesting that executive departments and agencies delay the effective date of any non-emergency rule published but that had not yet become effective pending review by the new administration. As a result of this regulatory freeze memorandum, yesterday, the Department of Labor withdrew three opinion letters that were issued in the final days of the Trump administration. These opinion letters are:
FLSA2021-4, which addressed whether a restaurant may institute a tip pool under the Fair Labor Standards Act that includes both servers, for whom the employer takes a tip credit, as well as hosts and hostesses, for whom a tip credit is not taken;
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