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Most employers are diligent about posting their Worker’s Compensation Panel in the area of their office designated from required employee notices. Regrettably not all employers are diligent about keeping them up to date. As we addressed in our earlier post, The Georgia Workers’ Compensation Panel of Physicians: Are You Following the Rules?, inclusion of an up to date list of Physicians is one of the 12 requirements for maintaining a current Worker’s Comp Panel. Six…

Employers with more than 10 employees are required to post OSHA Form 300A, which lists a summary of the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred during the prior year and were logged with OSHA via Form 300, the Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses. Employers who reported no injuries or illnesses in 2020 may simply enter “zero” on the total line on Form 300A. The form must be signed and certified by a…

A smart way to start the fiscal year is to incorporate a self-evaluation of your organization’s compliance with state and federal labor laws. This simple checklist should serve as a great starting point. A few basic areas of exploration should include: For Current Employees: Do you have an employee handbook? If so, does your handbook address the following policies: At-will employment policy, nondiscrimination policy, sexual harassment policy and confidential information policy? If your business has…

Business owners who are covering their health insurance premiums through a company in which they are a greater than 2% S-Corp shareholder-employee need to remember that these premiums are deductible by the S-Corp and therefore reportable as wages on the shareholder-employee’s Form W-2 and subject to income tax withholding. You’ll find this additional compensation included in the shareholder-employee’s Box 1 (Wages) of Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, but is not included in Boxes 3…

According to Georgia Code 21-2-404, employers must allow up to two hours of time off for employees to vote within any municipal, county, state or federal political party primary or election where they are qualified and registered to vote. Employers are not required to provide paid time off. In the instance where polls are open for two consecutive hours before or after the employee’s work shift, time off does not need to be granted. Learn…

As established by the ACA in 2015, certain employers are required to report to the IRS whether they offered health coverage to their employees and information about the coverage provided. Employers report this on the 1094/1095 series of forms and must also furnish the information to their employees by January 31, 2021. Under the employer shared responsibility provisions of section 4980H, the information reported is used to determine if an employer is potentially liable for…