Join Moss Adams and Bank of Marin as wine industry financial professionals discuss the issues and opportunities impacting the market. We’ll take questions from the audience and cover topics including: The current status and implications of Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection...

With the start of the new year, it is time to dust off the employee handbook, review your policies and procedures, and make sure they comply with all the new laws, regulations, and interpretations that have either already gone into effect or will in early 2023. Below, we have identified our “top...

We all became unusually preoccupied in the U.S.starting somewhere around March 15th, 2020. I don't know about you, but the picture above was how I felt at that point in time. Since then, all of our thinking and behavior has evolved in a myriad of ways, and some of that evolution is permanent. I'm...

The $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, passed by Congress and signed into law on Dec. 27, includes a number of provisions that affect employers and their workers in terms of paid sick leave and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Act provisions. The legislation also boosts unemployment benefits to...

This week the Senate returns from a two week, COVID-19 forced recess. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been in session working on the Supreme Court nomination hearings, but the full Senate has been out since the end of September. Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that he...

The terms of the usage of PPP loans were just substantially relaxed by the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 – H.R. 7010. PPP recipients now have 24 weeks (the “covered period”), to use the loan proceeds instead of the original eight weeks and still receive forgiveness of the loan...

On April 24, H.R. 266, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, was signed into law. In addition to providing significant funding for health care providers ($75 billion) and testing ($25 billion), the stimulus package revives the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)...

Last week Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, which was signed into law Friday, March 27, 2020. Among the extensive programs and economic incentives included in the legislation is the Paycheck Protection Program, which may benefit your business....

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today, March 31, that the SBA and the Treasury expect the CARES Act programs to be up and running by this Friday, April 3, 2020. You can find resources related to the CARES Act programs on Treasury’s website here, which is updated often and currently...

What a week! Last week was really tough as we all struggled to navigate the quickly changing legal landscape, while working from home, often with kids in the background. We have heard from several HR Directors that it feels like they are trying to drink from a fire hose. We are hoping to help by...