Webinar Series: Keeping Up With COVID Legal Updates * Nine Week Series with Lane Powell * Ends December 17th
What Business Steps Employers Need to Do Now to Survive COVID-19
November 12 | 10 – 11 a.m. PST
Craig Day and Eric Kodesch, Lane Powell PC
Your business has been hit hard by the pandemic. What can you do to survive? This session will review strategies employers can adopt to reduce employee wage and benefit costs and accommodate working from home while avoiding additional taxes, jail time and other penalties. This session reviews: how to handle payroll taxes for remote employees; the tax implications of reimbursing employees for home office expenses; whether employers must offer health care benefits to furloughed employees or employees with reduced hours; extended deadlines for COBRA benefits; retirement plan partial plan termination rules; and a brief discussion about how to plan for the Seattle’s City Council new “Jump Start Seattle” tax on businesses, applicable to employees who make more than $150,000 per year.
Series Overview:
Over nine weeks (October 15 to December 17), Lane Powell will host a weekly 60-minute webinar, where our attorneys and guest speakers will provide the most up-to-date guidance as it relates to employment laws, changing legislation and industry trends that employers need to be prepared for in the coming year. This webinar series is ideal for in-house counsel, HR professionals and employers of all sizes who are eager to stay at the forefront of employment best practices and the changing policies that will continue to shape the rapidly evolving workplace.
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