COVID-19 Legal and Business Resources
We recognize this is a time unlike any other. In order to do what we can during this precarious period, we will be preparing a number of materials designed to help both businesses and individuals with the various needs they may have. We will continue to add materials, so please check back. Pease contact us if you think we can assist you.
We will get through it together. We hope these materials can help you.
Employers should take a moment to review the new CDC guidance, summarized here, to prepare themselves for how to handle workers who test positive for COVID-19 and/or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19. Omicron has changed the game- employers should prepare for when, not if, they need to isolate or quarantine employees.
With COVID-19 vaccines readily available to most Americans and more and more employees returning to the workplace, employers are being forced to decide what their vaccination policies will be for workers. One of the primary components of this decision-making process will involve understanding what employers can legally require their employees to do. We are here to help!
While small businesses are fighting to survive, some landlords are also struggling. Empty spaces and tenants requesting lease abatements while maintaining mortgage, tax, maintenance, and salary obligations is proving tough for some landlords. This has created a tenant opportunity in some spaces for lower rates and better terms as landlords come to understand the pandemic commercial real estate market.
Are you waiting until the end of your 8-week or 24-week loan period to review our resources on loan forgiveness? If so, this blog is for you! Here are the 3 things to do now for forgiveness.
The SBA recently released its new version of the forgiveness application following some recent legislative changes to the terms of the program. Below are the highlights. Refer to our step-by-step forgiveness application instructions for more details on completing your application.
Businesses are opening back up after nearly 3 months of sheltering in place. We are obviously so pleased to be able to move forward, but for all businesses, there are a lot of questions about how to open safely and compliantly.
We know how important it is to get timely information on the PPP program, so we created this step-by-step guide to help you through the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application.
My business was approved for a PPP loan, and we'll be putting employees back onto payroll that had been laid off. How will this work with the changes to unemployment from the CARES Act? Will employees still be eligible for unemployment if we have to lay them off again after the 8-week loan period? Will they still be able to get the extra $600 per week?
Employment attorney, Chisa Chervenick, answers several questions about the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and loan forgiveness.
Q: I just hired a new employee. Are their wages considered eligible payroll expenses under the PPP loan? Is forgiveness limited to the wages of former employees only?
A new hire’s wages fall under the definition of payroll costs eligible for forgiveness. Had Congress intended to exclude these wages, it likely would have done so expressly alongside exclusions for wages paid to employees principally residing outside of the U.S. However, there are still outstanding questions about the forgiveness process as we await more guidance from the SBA. We provided some initial guidance about forgiveness here, but there will be more coming.
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