Washington has announced that its taxable wage base will increase to $44,000 in 2016. This is an increase of $1,900 from the 2015 wage base amount of $42,100. The increase…
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Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday that the state has paid off early a $972 million federal loan that kept its unemployment insurance program from collapsing during the Great Recession. The…
Netflix made headlines last week after it announced that parents under its employ would be allowed unlimited leave the year following the birth or adoption of a new child. They…
A new study reports that nonprofits make accounting errors at a relatively high rate compared to their for-profit cousins. The primary culprit for this concerning statistic most likely is because…
501(c) Agencies Trust announced today the addition of Child Care Aware of Washington as a new member. 501(c) Agencies Trust helps nonprofits across the country leave their state unemployment tax…
Last week the New York Attorney General’s Office ruled that employers in that state cannot require their employees to waive unemployment benefits. The ruling stems from an arbitration filed by…
The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has announced a reduction of its unemployment taxes due to a $500 reduction in the state’s Taxable Wage Base to $9,000. This reduction equates to…
501(c) Agencies Trust member YWCA York (PA) was in the news this week after their program for discouraging underage drinking earned a state grant for the fourth year in a…
The biggest problem with hiring is that people are hiring people. Too often our internal biases get in the way and we ignore a quality candidate because we are not…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that Title VII’s prohibitions on sex discrimination extend to discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation. This decision overturns past EEOC decisions….
The firm, Landry’s Inc., produced a social media policy that the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel rejected earlier this year. The reason for the rejection was due impart to the…
The forty hour work week and nine to five office hours may be dead – or at least dying. Technology now allows workers to not only work anywhere but at…
