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Dvorak Law Group, LLC has advised clients across the country regarding Employee Retention Credit (ERC) guidelines and potential eligibility. During the process, Dvorak Law Group assists clients by reviewing governmental orders and qualifications, as well as...

On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued McLaren Macomb, holding that severance agreements with broad non-disparagement and/or confidentiality provisions violate Section 7 rights of employees under the National Labor Relations Act...

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) is a refundable tax credit for businesses that continued to pay employees while operations were suspended due to government orders or that experienced significant declines in gross receipts due to the COVID-19 pandemic from March...

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently reversed Trump-era rulings that provided broad flexibility to employers offering severance packages to employees in exchange for the employee signing a severance agreement. Under the new ruling, severance...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revised thresholds to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act), take effect today, Monday, February 27, 2023. The HSR Act governs federal reporting requirements for transactions that are based upon...

The Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) is a program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act that provides certain businesses with a refundable tax credit on paid employee wages.  The ERC program was enacted to incentivize employers to keep...

No More Non-Competes? The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) recently issued a proposed rule that would prohibit nearly all non-compete agreements between employers and employees (the “Proposed Rule”). President Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order prompted the FTC...

Dvorak Law Group has assisted clients all over the country in every level of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), from the loan application, the forgiveness application, audits from governmental agencies, and appeals at both the administrative and federal...

Now that the dust has settled on the PPP loan program, federal agencies are backtracking on their original promises of loan forgiveness. Dvorak Law Group is currently assisting clients in audits requested by federal agencies in relation to the client’s original PPP...

On Friday, December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay on the OSHA ETS, which had been put in place by the Fifth Circuit.  The OSHA ETS requires employers with 100 or more employees to either (1) develop and enforce a...

On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) that requires large employers (100 or more employees) to (1) enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, or (2) enforce a policy that...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) regarding COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements for covered employers.  The ETS was officially published on Friday,...

Federal estate and gift tax mitigation is an important component for many high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals’ tax and financial planning efforts. The federal estate and gift tax framework limits the value an individual can give to their family,...