If you are an Applicable Large Employer (ALE)*, your business could face significant IRS assessments if your Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting forms 1095-C for the 2022 reporting year are not timely distributed to your full-time employees.  Failure to timely distribute the 1095-C forms to your employees may subject your business to potential IRS assessments. Please review and acknowledge your filing in the ACA Reporting Tool (ART) by Jan. 31, 2023 so that we can timely distribute the forms to your full-time employees. 

OSHA’s Recordkeeping Standard, 29 CFR 1904, requires that certain employers maintain annual records of workplace injuries and illnesses. The records are maintained throughout the calendar year on the OSHA Form 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (300 Log) and are summarized on the OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (300A Summary) at the end of each calendar year. The 300A Summary is required to be posted in the workplace every Feb. 1 through April 30 to show records from the previous year’s injuries and illnesses, even if no work-related injuries or illnesses occurred during the previous year.

The following chart shows the current minimum wage for non-tipped and tipped employees and the next scheduled increase (if any) for each state, the District of Columbia, various U.S. territories/commonwealths and numerous local jurisdictions.  Rates listed in black were enacted by federal, state, district, territory or commonwealth law. Rates listed in red were enacted by city or county ordinance. It is important to note that minimum wages that may be paid to individuals under a certain age (e.g. youth wage), to employees during a “training” period, or to employees working for a non-profit are not reflected.

Dealing with difficult employees can come with running a business. While it may be tempting to ignore these issues and hope they resolve on their own, without intervention, they can — and often do — get worse. To help you address difficult situations, here are some examples of employee challenges and guidelines for helping employees get back on track.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2022-59, which establishes the applicable dollar amount for policy and plan years ending on or after October 1, 2022 and before October 1, 2023 in relation to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Effective Dec. 12, 2022, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (Green Cards) for lawful permanent residents who have properly filed a Form N-400 Application for Naturalization.

We want to let you know that Arizona Form A-4 has been modified because the previous Form A-4 is no longer representative of new lower income tax rates.

Colorado’s public health emergency leave requirement applies to not just COVID-19, but also the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and similar respiratory illnesses, according to guidance issued by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE). The change is a result of the inclusion of those conditions in Colorado’s latest public health emergency (PHE) declaration as of Nov. 11, 2022.

Recent legislation has amended Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 62 § 1(c) to conform to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 132(f) for taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2022. Consequently, Massachusetts has adopted the federal monthly exclusion amounts for employer-provided parking, transit pass and commuter highway vehicle transportation benefits for the 2022 tax year and beyond.