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Federal Guidance on Paid Family and Medical Leave Taxes — What Employers Need to Know in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, and New York
By Mark Adams For years, employers in states with paid family and medical leave programs have faced a surprisingly basic question: how should contributions and benefits be treated for federal tax purposes? The IRS addressed that question on January 15, 2025, when it issued Revenue Ruling 2025-4. Since then, states have been working through what…
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Affirmative Action Update: Two Items for Federal Contractors to Have on Their Radar
By Mark Adams Federal contractors have two affirmative action compliance items to keep in mind this summer. OFCCP has renewed the disability self-identification form used for Section 503 compliance, and the annual VETS-4212 reporting period is now underway. OFCCP Renews Section 503 Self-Identification Form: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has renewed its…
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Does Your Harassment Training Actually Meet Connecticut’s 2-Hour Requirement?
Key takeaways You bought the harassment training. Your employees clicked through it. The completion certificates are sitting in a folder somewhere. So you’re covered, right? Maybe. Connecticut’s sexual harassment training law is specific about who has to be trained, for how long, and how often, and it’s possible that an e-learning or video course can…
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Is Your Payroll Company’s HR Enough?
Key takeaways You signed up for payroll, and HR came with it. A portal full of templates, PTO tracking, a support portal when a question comes up. It can feel like a smart way to get HR covered without hiring for it. Then a real employee situation occurs, and you found yourself doing the hard…
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Can ChatGPT Write Your Employee Handbook?
Key takeaways The employee handbook has been sitting on your to-do list for months, and ChatGPT will draft one in ninety seconds for free. We get why that’s tempting. When you’re the whole HR department, or owner who is the default “HR person,” cheap and fast is a real argument. So can ChatGPT write your…
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What is an HR Compliance Audit? A New England Employer’s Checklist
Most compliance gaps get found by someone else first. An audit puts you ahead of them, and in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, there’s more to check than a generic list will tell you. Key takeaways There’s a pattern we see all the time: an employer learns about a compliance gap only when someone else…
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Is Your Broker’s Free HR Portal Actually Enough?
Key takeaways Most included HR from a benefits broker can work for simple everyday tasks. You need a write-up form or an updated labor-law poster, you log in, you grab it, you move on. Then something real happens. A manager gets accused of playing favorites, an employee asks for leave you’re not sure how to…
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Pay Transparency in Massachusetts: What Your Comp Practices Need to Cover
Key takeaways If you run HR, operations, or finance for a company in Massachusetts, the pay-transparency deadline has already come and gone. Since October 29, 2025, employers with 25 or more Massachusetts employees have had to include a salary range in every job posting. Connecticut is close behind with a posting rule that starts October…