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 H.B. 166/S.B. 280 (2019) require restaurants to provide wage statements that show the effective hourly tip rate as derived from employer -paid cash wages plus all reported tips for tip credit hours worked each workweek of the pay period. NPRC noted that the amount of space on wage statements is limited.  The proposed regulation permits […]

The IRS issued the second draft of Form W-4 for 2020 on August 9. NPRC noted that up to ten states still have withholding allowances, but no state equivalent Form W-4; i.e., they rely on the IRS W-4, which will no longer have an entry box for number of allowances. NPRC drafted a joint letter […]

On June 14, MA Department of Family and Medical Leave announced a three month delay of the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program to allow employers more time to prepare their organizations and workforces. As a result, withholding is to commence on Oct. 1, 2019. The withholding rate for employee contributions to the program has […]

As of July 9, 2019 the bill has seen some movement and has been re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Here’s a link to the California Legislation Information web page where you can access the latest status, bill content and history.  http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB472 Earlier last month, the NPRC wrote a letter (see attachment) to CA Senator Anna […]

The NPRC has taken an active role over the past several months working with the DC DOES representing the best interests of the PSP industry in terms of understanding and implementing DC’s new paid sick leave program. As a result and due to feedback and questions provided by the NPRC, their final employer facing documents […]

The U.S. District Court for DC ruled March 4 that the EEOC must reinstate collection of Component 2 EEO-1 pay data immediately, which may require employers with 100 or more employees to submit reports of their workers’ wages and hours, broken down by race, gender and ethnicity, to the EEOC, retroactive to January 2018. NPRC […]

In November, NPRC members met with SSA to learn about SSA’s IT Modernization Earnings project.  SSA needs to comply with new NIST security standards, so this is a change opportunity to rewrite W-2 reporting-related systems. The NPRC agreed to kick off a series of further technical meetings over the coming year to offer input. The […]

The NPRC met with the Deputy Director of Legislation and Policyof the Department of Industrial Relations, the Director of Legislation of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency and the California Labor Commissioner of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency on August 13th where the opportunity to introduce the concept of emerging technologies which […]

The NRPC recently sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service Associate Chief Counsel (Procedure and Administration) with comments on the proposed regulations, which provide safe harbor rules that treat payee statements/information returns, such as Forms W-2, that contain de minimis errors in dollar amounts as correct for penalty purposes. See attached letter for more […]

On December 21, 2018, the NPRC sent a formal letter to the IRS explaining the difficulties and challenges in implementing change in enforcement policy and/or system changes without reasonable advance notice described in the letter as at least one year (and preferably two). See see attached letter.