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March 1 Deadline for Notification to Existing Employees About Their New Washington Paid Sick Leave Rights
This Thursday—March 1—is the deadline for Washington employers to provide notice to current employees about their new paid sick leave rights under Washington’s paid sick leave law.
On January 1, 2018, Washington’s paid sick leave law—adopted by Wash...
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When the Love Bug Bites in the Workplace
Flowers, chocolates, love letters, and . . . costly litigation?
As we enter the first Valentine's Day of the #MeToo era, a wise employer is wary of the risks associated with office romances. A new survey of 150 human resources executives publis...
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How Forward-Thinking Oregon Companies Can Avoid Implicit Bias
Miller Nash Graham & Dunn attorneys P.K. Runkles Pearson and Jollee Patterson's article "How Forward-Thinking Oregon Companies Can Avoid Implicit Bias" was published by the Portland Business Journal on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. Click...
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Sexual Harassment Settlements May Not Be Deductible
The recently enacted 2017 Tax Act (known unofficially as the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act") amended the Internal Revenue Code to disallow an income tax deduction "for any settlement or payment related to sexual harassment or sexual abuse if such settlement...
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MAKE AMERICA DRINK AGAIN—Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Under the Trump Administration
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the most sweeping tax reform package since 1986, the law commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act"). Although the provisions relevant to the alcoholic beverage industry apply onl...
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Like-Kind Exchanges (Mostly) Survive Tax Reform
Before the enactment of the recent tax reform package—commonly known as, but not officially titled, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”)—every discussion of tax reform raised fears that Congress might repeal Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue...
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