Our Sick Leave Toolkit, which includes Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and model sick leave policies for jurisdictions with sick leave laws, has been updated based on recent agency guidance, rules and/or best practice recommendations.  

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that, among other revisions to its drug and alcohol testing regulations; it will expand its drug testing panel.  

As you are likely aware from previous communications, the New York Paid Family Leave Benefits Law is set to take effect January 1, 2018.  As service to you, we have prepared an Employer Toolkit, which summarizes key provisions of the law and regulations and provides an overview of the claims process and sample employee communications. It is designed to get you quickly up to speed on your compliance obligations and how ADP Resource assists you in complying with those obligations.  

Employers have received scam emails requesting Form I-9 information that appear to come from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  Do not respond to these emails or click the links in them.

At this time At this time, the IRS is not providing any changes to the 2018 percentage-method withholdings tables and Form W-4. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will continue accepting 2016 OSHA Form 300A data until midnight on December 31, 2017. OSHA will not take enforcement action against employers who submit their reports after the December 15, 2017 deadline, but before the December 31, 2017 final entry date.

New Jersey employers with 50 or more employees are required to “conspicuously post” and distribute a notification stating employees’ rights to be free from gender inequity or bias in pay, compensation, benefits or other terms or conditions. This requirement complies with the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963. 

Massachusetts employers are required to provide the sexual harassment policy to employees annually and to all new employees upon hire.   

Maine law requires employers to annually provide employees with notice of the employer’s sexual harassment policy.

It’s time for the annual distribution of the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) in both English and Spanish.