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According to the California Employment Development Department (EDD), employers statewide directly affected by damage resulting from the drought may request up to a 60-day extension of time from EDD to file their State payroll reports and/or deposit State payroll taxes without penalty or interest. This extension may be granted under Section 1111.5 of the California Unemployment Insurance Code (CUIC). Written request for extension must be received within 60 days from the original delinquent date of the payment or return to file/pay. Contact Vision Payroll if you’ve been affected and need to file the extension request.

According to the California Employment Development Department (EDD), employers in the counties of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino directly affected by the damage resulting from the fire may request up to a 60-day extension of time from EDD to file their State payroll reports and/or deposit State payroll taxes without penalty or interest. The written request for extension must be received within 60 days from the original delinquent date of the payment or return to file/pay. Contact Vision Payroll if you’ve been affected and need to file the extension request.

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. recently filed suit against three trucking companies alleging that the companies improperly classified their employees as independent contractors. The suits filed against Guasimal Trucking, LLC, Noel A. Moreno and Emma R. Moreno, owners of Moreno Trucking, and Edmundo Jose Lira, operator of a trucking business. All three companies hire drivers to transport cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The suits allege that by misclassifying their drivers the companies fail to pay Unemployment Insurance taxes, to pay Employment Training Fund taxes, to withhold and transmit State Disability Insurance taxes, to withhold State income taxes and file a withholding return, to provide workers’ compensation insurance, and to provide employees with pay stubs. All these items are required under various sections of California law. Please contact your labor law attorney immediately if you have questions on the proper classification of your workers as employees or independent contractors. Vision Payroll will work with you to help ensure proper taxes are paid, returns filed, and pay stubs provided.

According to the California Employment Development Department (EDD), employers in the counties of Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino directly affected by the damage resulting from the fire may request up to a 60-day extension of time from EDD to file their State payroll reports and/or deposit State payroll taxes without penalty or interest. The written request for extension must be received within 60 days from the original delinquent date of the payment or return to file/pay. Contact Vision Payroll if you’ve been affected and need to file the extension request.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 10 into law recently. The new law, signed as an urgency statute, took effect immediately upon the signing by the governor. Under the law, certain computer software professionals who make $36 or more per hour, if paid hourly or $75,000 per year (paid at least monthly) if paid a salary, are exempt from the overtime provisions of California state law. Both amounts are scheduled to be adjusted annually in proportion to changes in the California Consumer Price Index. Trainees and other categories of employees are exempted from the overtime law. Contact Vision Payroll if you have questions on the change in California overtime law.

Following an investigation, the US Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $5 million in underpaid overtime. The suit was filed against CEMEX, Inc., a Houston-based provider of cement and concrete products. Employees in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas were allegedly underpaid overtime hours for piece rate and incentive bonus pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employees eligible for overtime be paid at one and one-half times their regular rate of pay, which should include most commissions, bonuses, and incentive pay. Vision Payroll provides a continuing series on the FLSA, but you should contact your labor attorney with specific questions on overtime hours and pay rates.

According to the California Employment Development Department (EDD), employers in the county of Humboldt directly affected by the damage resulting from the fire may request up to a 60-day extension of time from EDD to file their State payroll reports and/or deposit State payroll taxes without penalty or interest. The written request for extension must be received within 60 days from the original delinquent date of the payment or return to file/pay. Contact Vision Payroll if you’ve been affected and need to file the extension request.