Tag: Covid-19

The IRS is warning employers to beware of third parties who are advising them to claim the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) when they may not qualify. Some third parties are taking improper positions related to Read More

The Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) was originally enacted as part of the first wave of pandemic relief in March of 2020. Since then, it has been modified and expanded to make many small businesses eligible. Read More

Are you optimistic about the future of your small business? The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported in April 2022, that the number of businesses expecting brighter days ahead has dropped to its lowest Read More

Payroll Protection Plan (PPP) loans were a lifeline for many small business owners during the worst of the pandemic-driven economic slowdown. In total, the Small Business Administration (SBA) approved nearly 12 million PPP loans, averaging Read More

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers shut down their regular workplaces, either partially or wholly, as a safety precaution and instructed their employees to work from home. While some employees have returned to work, many Read More

The pandemic isn't in the rearview mirror yet, but it's already clear that the U.S. business landscape has changed. Many employers, for example, are expected to allow their remote workforce to remain working from home Read More

How can tenants pay their regular monthly rent bills if they're out of job? As unemployment skyrocketed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted a series of laws designed to provide relief to renters and Read More

Enduring a global pandemic may not be as traumatizing as military combat, but in both cases, the aftereffects can linger. When the smoke clears, there's a lot of rebuilding that needs to happen to return Read More

If you have employees working from home, and you want to transition them back to the workplace as the economy picks up, you may find it's harder than you once thought. For some employees, nervousness Read More

Every year, roughly 66,000 non-U.S. citizens are granted special visas to perform non-agricultural and non-highly skilled jobs in the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's H-2B program. The underlying program (which formerly Read More