The "Big Beautiful Bill" made some overtime wages exempt from a portion of Federal income tax for employees starting in 2025. This is an employee-exemption and benefit, which may seem to imply employers don't have much to do in response, but as is the case with many things of this nature, unfortunately there are employer requirements and burdens required as part of this bill that do land squarely in your laps.

A lot of employers assume that hiring family means different rules apply. In New York State, that is almost never true. NYS treats family employees the same as any other employee — and misunderstanding this is a major audit trigger.

Get our list of required actions as we start 2026, along with recommended best-practice actions to help you stay compliant, reduce risk, and get ahead of the growing employee expectations around flexibility, workplace exceptions, and overall work-life balance.

Beginning in 2026, the New York Secure Choice Savings Program (“Secure Choice”) becomes mandatory for many employers who do not already offer a retirement plan- but also requires actions by those that do.

Congress has passed the No Tax on Tips Act, giving eligible tipped employees a major new tax break. Even though the tax break is for employees, it has important implications for employers. Read our guide on needed and suggested actions to prepare your business.

Attendance is one of the lowest-hanging fruits in performance management — and one of the most ignored. Shifting the norms around attendance can be done through establishing clear policies that work for your business, training your managers on the necessity and methods for using them, and then providing the tools and support to do so.

One complicating factor in doing this is NYS Paid Sick Leave which requires some absences to be protected from such accountability efforts. This guide helps you navigate this nuance in your construction and implementation efforts of attendance policies.

Audits of employers’ I-9 documents are expected to rise as part of a national crack down on illegal immigration. To make sure you are prepared, follow these steps to make sure your documents are ready!

With this being such a high-risk area of wage and hour compliance, do you know how to properly classify and pay your employees?

Watch a recording of this webinar from November!

There were many updates to employment requirements in 2024, many of which go into place with the start of the new year.