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Overtime Rule Struck Down
We are pleased to bring you the final
Employment Law and Legislative
Update of 2017 recapping some of the
key developments in employment law
and legislation that have emerged in
the fourth quarter of 2017. As we get
ready to welcome in a New Year We
are pleased to bring you the final
Employment Law and Legislative
Update of 2017 recapping some of the
key developments in employment law
and legislation that have emerged in
the fourth quarter of 2017. As we get
ready to welcome in a New Year,
Pending Tax Bill Could Impact Your
Workplace
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pay will no longer be exempt from
§162(m), the statute prohibiting public
companies from deducting more than
$1M per year in compensation to
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, expected
to become effective January 1, 2018, senior executive officers, and the
statute’s scope will widen; (v) both tax
aims to implement many changes to
the U.S. tax code. The bill has the exclusion and deduction for employee
moving expenses have been
potential to impact the workplace in
many ways: (i) the bill would end the suspended until 2025, and instead will
be treated as taxable income; and (vi)
individual health coverage mandate,
though the Affordable Care Act employers will no longer be able to
claim a deduction for expenses of
employer mandate remains in place,
(ii) eligible employers will receive a tax employee meals, though employees
credit equal to a percentage of the can still exclude them from taxable
wages paid to qualified employees on income. For more information on the
FMLA leave, if the employee receives coming changes and current status of
at least 50% of their normal wages, the legislation, visit SHRM’s resource
(iii) employers will no longer be entitled here.
to a deduction for qualified mass
transit and parking benefits, (iv)
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Scam Is Requesting I-9s from
Employers – Be on the Lookout!
It appears that there is a scam
targeting employers that may
be coming your way! Employers
have reported receiving scam
emails from the email address
news@uscis.gov asking for
copies of I-9s. Don’t be fooled.
The U.S. Citizenship &
Immigration Services (USCIS) does not
ask for I-9s in this fashion.
For more information on how to avoid
common scams or report suspicious
emails like this, see USCIS’s website
here.
North Carolina │State Law
Reminder – North Carolina’s
New Employee Misclassification
Law is effective December 31,
2017
Have you reviewed your
employee classifications
recently? Are you sure that your
independent contractors are
independent contractors and not
employees? If you haven’t done a
workplace audit of independent
contractors recently, consider
adding this as an action item in
2018. North Carolina’s Employee
Fair Classification Act takes effect
December 31, 2017, and creates a
new Section in North Carolina’s
Industrial Commission that is
dedicated to receiving and
investing reports by employees
claiming to be misclassified as
independent contractors. For more
information or a refresher, consider
reviewing Department of Labor or
IRS information on this topic.
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Harassment Policies are
increasingly important
following the Harvey Weinstein
scandal…
The Harvey Weinstein scandal and
the #MeToo social media
campaign has put sexual
harassment on the radar. When is
the last time your company
reviewed its harassment policy or
Employee Handbook? Now is a
good time to do so, as having a
well drafted Employee Handbook
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with an anti-harassment policy
can help insulate you from some
sexual harassment claims. EEOC
information on how to draft a
complaint anti-harassment policy
is available here.
Fourth Circuit Holds Allegedly
Sexist Remarks Fail to Support
Title VII Claims
Decisions from the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals are binding on
North Carolina district courts. In
the unpublished decision of
Melendez v. Board of Education for
Montgomery County (4th Cir. Oct.
10, 2017), the court held that
statements by a male supervisor
that he did not “want women
working in the morning” and did
not “want the three women on his
schedule” were insufficient to
support a cause of action for
discrimination on the basis of
gender because the comments
were isolated and there was a lack
of temporal proximity between the
comments and the allegedly
adverse employment action taken.
While unpublished decisions are
not binding, the Melendez decision
is an employer-favorable decision
that stands for the proposition
that while derogatory comments
may in some instances constitute
direct evidence of harassment or
discrimination, the materiality of
“stray or isolated remarks” is
reduced. The full Melendez
decision is available at:
https://law.justia.com/cases/feder
al/appellate-courts/ca4/17-
1116/17-1116-2017-10-10.html
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Table of Contents:

1. IRS issues new tax withholding

tables for 2018
2. Still looking for a New Year's
resolution? Consider advocating for
your nonprofits mission!
3. New CMS guidance on Medicaid
work requirements could affect
nonprofits
4. DOL announces new guidance
on updaid interns and FLSA
compliance
5. Overly simple Form 1023-EZ
application remains a problem for
IRS and nonprofits
6. Judges reject NC congressional
districts
7. Final 2017 lobbying reports are
due next Frida

IRS ISSUES NEW TAX WITHOLDING

2018
Yesterday, the Internal Revenue
Service released its income tax
withholding tables for 2018 (IRS
Notice 1036). The new tax law that
was signed into law on December 22,
2017 reduces individual income tax
rates, increases the standard
deduction, and ends personal
exemptions. As a result, many
nonprofit employees will need to
have less federal income taxes
withheld from their paychecks and
some will need to have more taxes
withheld. The IRS encourages
employers - including nonprofits - to
update their employees' withholding
amounts as soon as possible and no
later than February 15. Many
nonprofits use payroll companies,
which can provide assistance in
implementing these changes as
quickly as possible.
Shurm HRCI
The IRS is also working on revising its
tax withholding calculator on IRS.gov
and on an updated Form W-4 to help
your employees better assess their To learn more about ways that new tax
law affects nonprofits, check out the
tax withholdings for 2018.
recording of yesterday's webinar from the
National Council of Nonprofits
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2. Still Looking for a New Year's
Resolution? Consider Advocating for
Your Nonprofit's Mission
The N.C. General Assembly will return
to Raleigh on May 16 for its 2018 short
session (technically, legislators are in
the midst of another special session
right now!). The short session will likely
run through at least the end of June and
is a great opportunity for nonprofit
staff, board members, and volunteers to
talk with their state senators and
representatives about their nonprofits'
work and the ways that state policy
affects their communities.
Let us know if you'll be in Raleigh during
this year's short session and would like
to meet with your state legislators while
you're in town. The Center can help you
set up meetings, providing coaching on
messaging and logistics, and even join
you for your meetings.
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4. DOL Announces New Guidance on Unpaid
Interns and FLSA Compliance
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
announced that is using a new seven-factor test to
determine whether students and interns working
for for-profit businesses are employees who are
entitled to minimum wage under the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA). This test, which is more
favorable to employers than the previous DOL test,
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looks at the Sidebar
"economic Content
realities" of which party (the
employer or the intern) is the primary beneficiary
of the work relationship. Unlike for-profit
businesses, 501(c)(3) nonprofits can use unpaid
interns, but the new DOL guidance is applicable to
some nonprofits that offer stipends or other
payments to their interns that are below the
minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Separately, DOL's Wage and Hour Division recently
restarted its practice of issuing opinion letters
interpreting the application of FLSA to various
employers' circumstances and reinstated many
opinion letters that had been issued between 2001
and 2009. Some of these opinion letters may be
helpful to nonprofits in understanding how the
minimum wage and overtime requirements of
FLSA apply to their organizations.
3. New CMS Guidance on Medicaid Work
Requirements Could Affect Nonprofits
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) announced new guidance that
would open the door to states' to impose work or
"community engagement" requirements on non-
disabled adults as a condition for Medicaid
eligibility. North Carolina is one of 10 states that
has expressed interest in establishing work or
community engagement requirements for
Medicaid recipients. These types of requirements
could pose two potential challenges for nonprofits.
First, they would mean that fewer North
Carolinians would be eligible for Medicaid, which
would increase burdens on nonprofits that provide
health care and a wide variety of other human
services. Second, some Medicaid recipients that are
unable to find work may
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Notice the image of the young woman that’s
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The background has been removed from that
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Office 2010 introduced several new and
improved picture formatting tools in Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel. Among those is the
Remove Background tool that you can use to
remove backgrounds from your own images,
similar to the sample image on the preceding
page.
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into the document (on the Insert tab, click
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image on the page and select or clear position of a divider bar shape to
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and dividers
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On the Background Removal tab, click Mark
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across the portion of the image you want to
add or remove. When you are finished
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