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CA Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – Update

Jan 31, 2020

One of the issues NPRC has been following and commenting on is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). AB25 recently provided a one-year reprieve of the CCPA for employers/employment context, with the exception of the disclosure requirement, which still applies. Generally, as...

MN Wage Theft Prevention Act

Jan 31, 2020

A small group of NPRC members worked with Minnesota to clarify a few concerns regarding their new wage theft prevention act. FAQs to address concerns around the “basis of pay” and the “deductions and amount” requirements on the employee notice. FAQs 2 and...

NY Legislation

Jan 30, 2020

Legislative bills were introduced in September 2019 in response to the MYPayrollHR incident. S. 6727, for example, would create a private right of action, including class actions and triple damages, for any delay in payroll payments caused by a payroll...

MA Delays PFML 3 months to Oct. 1, 2019

Jul 18, 2019

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...

CA SB 472 Update…Wage-Based/Work-Based Advances

Jul 18, 2019

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...

CA Early Access to Earned Wages (see CA SB 472 Update blog for the latest activity)

Feb 4, 2019

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...

Maine’s New UI Tax System

Dec 11, 2018

Last week, on behalf of the NPRC membership, Tom Crowley provided feedback to the Director, Division of Tax Services for the ME Bureau of Unemployment Compensation regarding their new tax system known as ReEmployME. The issue causing most concern is the...

Enhanced State UI Wage Reporting

Sep 13, 2018

States have begun to add data elements to the traditional core wage reporting elements (name, SSN, wages). States are adding hours worked, hourly wage rate, Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) code, location code, and date of hire. Why? - Each state...