Monthly Archives: March 2017

The battle over healthcare, at least for the moment, is over. The GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, has been resoundingly rejected by Congress from both sides of the aisle.  Democrats rejected it because although it would cut an estimated  $137 billion from the budget, it …

In February, we reported to be on the lookout for W2 scams during tax season. From the end of the calendar year to the tax deadline in mid-April is the prime time for hackers and information thieves to attempt to get their hands on the personal information of your employees in order to file fraudulent …

When you’re a startup business, chances are you have a very small number of employees. If, for example, you started out as four people in a basement or a garage, chances are that everyone in your startup organization wore multiple hats and were called upon to multitask. Many startups find that in order to break …

When it comes to discrimination and harassment cases that wind up in court, according to a recent article which appeared in Bloomberg BNA, human resource professionals can be called upon to represent either the interests of the employer or those of the worker. Attorney Kathleen Peratis, a partner at Outten & Golden based in New …