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President Biden Raises Minimum Wage To $15 For Federal Contractors

May 10, 2021

  President Biden Raises Minimum Wage To $15 For Federal Contractors President Biden signed an Executive Order on April 28th that will increase the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. The minimum wage for federal contractors is currently $10.95, which has been in place since 2014 under President Obama. President Biden’s Executive…

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Analysis of IRS Guidance for President Trump’s COVID-19 Payroll Tax Holiday

September 22, 2020

  Analysis of IRS Guidance for President Trump’s COVID-19 Payroll Tax Holiday Following the failure of Congress to pass the most recent round of COVID-related economic stimulus, which has still not occurred, President Trump, by executive order, postponed the collection and remittance of Social Security taxes withheld from employees’ checks. This Social Security tax amounts…

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New Restrictions in North Carolina

June 26, 2020

New Restrictions in North Carolina Starting on Friday, June 26 at 5:00 PM, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s Executive Order No. 147 goes into effect, extending Phase 2 until July 17, 2020 and imposing further restrictions. Specifically, beginning Friday June 26, people in North Carolina are required to wear a mask in any public area…

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Which Businesses are “Essential” or “Critical” under the South Carolina Executive Orders?

April 8, 2020

Beginning last week on Wednesday, April 1st, in South Carolina non-essential businesses, venues, facilities, and services were ordered to be closed to non-employees and the public. In the latest Executive Orders issued on April 3rd & 6th, South Carolina Governor McMaster has further defined which businesses must be closed. The latest “Home or Work Order” (No. 2020-21),…

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To ban or not to ban – Trump’s new Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry

April 3, 2017

The new Executive Order signed by President Trump on March 6, 2017 was scheduled to be effective as of 12:01 am on March 16, 2017 and should have caused the US Department of State to reevaluate the current screening procedures in order to increase national security. In the evening of March 15, 2017, a federal…

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